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Facts and Events
Biography
From: Portait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties
Publ: Logansport, Ind., A.W. Bowen & Co., 1898
ISAAC MISHLER, a leading farmer of Suffield township, Portage county, was born in Springfield township, Summit county, Ohio, September 14, 1838, a son of Joseph and Magdalene (Garl) Mishler.
Joseph Mishler was born in Lancaster county, Pa., November 11, 1811, and came to Ohio when a young man, settling in Summit county, where he bought land and engaged in farming. November 23, 1837, he married, in New Berlin, Stark county, Miss Garl, who was born in Stark county, May 4, 1817, a daughter of Reuben, and to this union were born eleven children, six of whom are still living, viz: Isaac, our subject, the eldest; Jacob, born December 9, 1843; Benjamin, born August 27, 1845; Eliza, born June 15, 1850, and married to Conrad Brumbaugh; Catherine, born April 17, 1854, now the wife of J.B. Richard, and Joseph W., born July 27, 1857. The deceased children were David, who died July 18, 1840; Levi, who died March 20, 1841; Elizabeth, who was the wife of John May, died in May 1896, at the age of fifty years; twin boys, who died at birth, in December, 1856. Both parents died in the faith of the German Baptist church, of which they had been life-long members.
Isaac Mishler passed his early life on his father's farm, receiving meantime, a limited education in the common school. At the age of twenty-one he began learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed fourteen years, and in 1866 settled on his present farm in Suffield township, where he has ever since been prosperously engaged in cultivating his fields.
The marriage of Mr. Mishler took place in November, 1859, to Miss Elizabeth Lutz, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Mishler) Lutz, and to this union were born five children, viz: Maria, wife of Jeremiah Garl; Nancy, married to Henry Gaymeyer, and Aaron, living with his parents; Reuben, died when one year old, and Levi died October 7, 1870, at the age of seven months. Mrs. Mishler was born March 7, 1841, in Lancaster county, Pa., whence her parents came to Ohio in 1845, and settled in Portage county. They had born to them a family of twelve children, of whom four are now deceased, viz: Kate, Sarah, Margaret and George; the survivors are Henry, Susan (wife of Isaac Crouse); Ezra, Elizabeth, William, Maria (Mrs. Henry Woodring), Nancy (wife of Benjamin Radabaugh), and Joseph. The father [Aaron Lutz] of this family died in August , 1875, and the mother in June 1885, the latter being aged seventy-nine years, and bowere devout members of the German Baptist church.
Mr. Mishler has served as school director twenty-three years. He and family are all members of the German Baptist church, and fully live up to its precepts. He has led a truly good and useful life, has always been industrious and intelligent in the management of his affairs, and as a result is in quite comfortable circumstances, enjoying the good will and esteem of all who know him.
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