This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hostetler and Jones Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4Bk.2ACIB/107 Message Board Post: Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, compiled by John Gresham, U.S.A., June 1900. (Reprinted 1979 by Unigraphics, Evansville, Indiana) Page 250 “JOHN C. HOSTETLER John C. Hostetler, who is engaged in the agricultural implement business, including buggies and wagons, and recently elected alderman from the third ward in Tuscola, was born in Douglas county, August 27, 1866, and is a son of D. C. and L. M. Hostetler, natives of Indiana. The father settled in Bowdre township some time in the ‘fifties and died in Tuscola, in 1895, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His mother is still living. Mr. Hostetler was married in1889 to Miss Laura A., daughter of H. c. Jones, whose sketch is found on another page. They have one child, Leon. Mr. Hostetler operated a planing and repair shop previous to entering into his present business, which he sold out in 1896. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Order of Red Men, and is one of the popular and promising young business men of Tuscola.”