David Hostetler

HOSTETLER, MAST, SHAFER

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:21:36

David Hostetler, a native of Holmes county, Ohio, was born February 4, 1817. His parents, Joseph and Susanna (Mast) Hostetler, were natives of Pennsylvania, but they settled in Ohio in 1807, being among the early settlers of Holmes county, where they both died in 1858 at an advanced age. David was brought up on a farm, and received but a common school education. He is the fourth son of a family of eight, all of whom are living. He resided in Indiana and afterward in Wisconsin, where he married Miss Elizabeth Shafer. In 1862 he came to Iowa and settled on section 36, Butler township.
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Mr. Hostetler has been identified with the school interests ever since he came to the county, and has been president of the school board for two terms. He has also been trustee of the town for two years. In politics he has been both democrat and republican, but now is an independent, voting for the best man. In religion he is a liberal. His wife died November 7, 1881, at the age of fifty-five years. He has three children – Eugene, Max and Bruno. His two oldest sons are now in the mercantile business in Nebraska, and the other in the State University.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages: 506-507