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Subject: [PA-BIO] Daniel Bitler, husband of 1. Sarah J. Van Tress 2. Elizabeth Waggoner
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:16:15 EDT

Ref: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
Lyon County - Part 22 (Center Township)
Published in 1883 by A.T. Andreas, Chicago, IL

DANIEL BITLER, farmer and stock dealer, Section 3, Township 21, P. O.
Bitlertown was born in Schuylkill County, Pa,. September 24, 1820, where he
remained on a farm until about twelve years of age, when he removed with his
parents to Franklin County, Ohio, and, after a residence there of about two
years, removed to Allen County. His father, Daniel Bitler, was one of the
founders of the town of St. Johns, in Allen County, in 1835. The subject of
this sketch continued to reside here with his father, assisting him in the
operation of his general store, until he was twenty years of age. In 1840, he
began business for himself, conducting a general mercantile business, and at
times, also engaged in farming and stock dealing. In 1834, he was elected to
the office of County Treasurer of Auglaize County. He was also Postmaster at
St. Johns, Ohio, in 1839, again in 1844 and 1856 and was Justice of the Peace
three terms, nine years at St. Johns, Ohio, and removed to the county seat,
Wapakoneta, where he resided for two years; returning then to St. Johns, he
resumed his business operations. Three years later he sold out his business
at St. Johns and engaged in general merchandising at Wapakoneta, dealing
largely also in stock and grain, where he remained until he came to Kansas,
in 1866. In April, of that year, he located in Lyon County, on Eagle Creek,
in Center Township, where he purchased a farm of 174 acres, which he has
improved by the erection of a commodious dwelling, barns, granaries and
corn-cribs capable of holding about 15,000 bushels. He has since purchased
about 300 acres on the Verdigris River, in Greenwood County, which he has
given to his sons; about 340 acres near Eureka, Greenwood County, and 480
acres in Center Township, about four miles southwest of his original farm,
and a farm of forty acres about one mile east of his home place, also 320
acres adjoining his home place, make it now 494 acres. His principal crop is
corn; he raises many cattle and hogs, and deals largely in stock, buying and
shipping cattle and hogs. He was elected a director of the Emporia National
Bank in 1873, and re-elected annually ever since. He has held the office of
Township Trustee ten or eleven years since he came to the State, and served
as a Justice of the Peace one term here. He married Miss Sarah J. Van Tress,
of Allen County, Ohio, May 10, 1840, by whom he had nine children, of whom
Sylvester V., William S., Susanna, Hannah, and Martha are living. She died
September 18, 1856, and he married June 14, 1857, Miss Elizabeth Waggoner, of
Auglaize County, Ohio, by whom he has had seven children, of whom Charles L.,
Clara J., Cora B., Daniel F., Maggie M. and Rhoda Kate are living.

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