BIGLER, SAMUEL

BIGLER, KISLIG, AEBI, BLOOM

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 09:06:59

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

page 797

BIGLER, SAMUEL--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 14, P.O. Victor. Was born February 20, 1821, in Switzerland, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till about 1842, when his parents died. In 1843 he learned the baker's trade, and in the spring of 1845 came to America and worked at his trade till October; then went to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he bought one hundred acres of timber land which he cleared and farmed till 1871; then he came to Iowa and engaged extensively in farming and stock-raising where he now lives and owns six hundred and eighty-five acres of well-improved land. Mr. Bigler has been twice married; first, in September, 1846, in Ohio, to Miss Susan Kislig, who was born in Switzerland, April 1, 1826; from this union there were eight children: Charles C. (born October 15, 1847; married, and lives in Warren township), Edward S. (born December 23, 1849; married, and lives in Shelby county, Iowa), Lewis A. (born July 20, 1852; died Sept. 3, 1876), August V. (born October 25, 1854; died March 3, 1856), Adela Cecilia (born May 22, 1858), Albert T. (born June 27, 1860), Alice C. (born August 18, 1865), Hugo N. (born January 6, 1870). Mrs. Bigler, after a short illness, died July 31, 1868, leaving many friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Mr. Bigler, for his secondwife, June 16, 1880, married Mrs. Mary Ann Aebi of Warren township; she has five children living by a former marriage: John (aged twenty-eight; married, and lives in Iowa), Emma (aged twenty-six; now the wife of H. Bloom of Warren township), Adolph, (aged twenty-three), Amil, F. (aged twenty-one), Otto (aged seventeen years).