FOr sure :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Lynch" <kslynch62@hotmail.com> To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Hesler biography > First I thought he was a neighbor I didn't remember -- then I looked at > his date of death. Oh, well! I'm getting creaky, but I'm not THAT old! > Kathy > > > >> From: karen.zach@sbcglobal.net >> To: INMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com >> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:44:10 -0400 >> CC: infounta@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [InMontgo] Hesler biography >> >> Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Indiana and Indianans. Chicago: American Historical >> Society, 1919, p 1304 -- Lincoln Hesler had a career as a lawyer and >> citizen such as all thinking people must admire. He was best known in >> the counties of Fountain and Montgomery, where for over a 1/4 of a >> century he practiced law. For 12 years before his death, his home was in >> Crawfordsville. A well rounded and sincere tribute to his life is found >> in the words of a memorial resolution drawn up and presented by a >> committee of the Montgomery County Bar in the following language: >> "Lincoln Hesler, son of William and Matilda Hesler, was born in Fountain >> County, Indiana Aug 21, 1862 and departed this life at Crawfordsville Nov >> 3, 1918. He was married to Jennie Sumner Dec 6, 1883. His widow and two >> sons, Russell L. and Herbert S who at the time of his death were both in >> the United States Military Service, survive him. Mr. Hesler was >> graduated from DePauw University at Greencastle in 1884, being while t! > he! >> re a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and in January of that >> year was a member of the Fountain County Bar. He was engaged in the >> active practice of his chosen profession for a period of 27 years and >> then very reluctantly closed his office after his health had failed and >> his physician had advised that he would have to give up the practice. >> For 21 years he practice in Fountain Co and for six in Montgomery County. >> He never sought poltiical preferment but during the grater portion of the >> period of his practice he was attorney for the City of Veedersburg. He >> did not enter the practice for the purpose of making money or with a view >> to gaining a reputation as a great lawyer, but because of his fondness >> for the science of law. It was fascinating to him and he enjoyed it. He >> regarded law as a science - a human method of dealing out justice between >> men. He was ethical in his practice, fair to his colleagues and loyal to >> his clients. In his death the Montgomery County! > B! >> ar has lost one of its most loyal and conscientious members, the comm >> unity an honest and patriotic citizen." Mr. Hesler's parents, William >> and Matilda Furr Hesler, were both natives of KY and they and their four >> children, two sons and two daughtesr, Jacob, Ida, Serina and Lincoln are >> all now deceased. Mrs. Lincoln Hesler was born at Covington Indiana, >> April 27, 1865, a daughter of Alvah and Emily Booe Sumner. Her father was >> a native of Ohio born March 26, 1828 and came to Indiana with his parents >> at age 19. He spent his active life as a cabinet maker and he made all >> the furniture with which he and his bride began housekeeping. He died in >> 1916. Mr. Hesler's mother was born Dec 26, 1830 in New Liberty, Indiana >> and died November 28, 1908. In the Sumner family were 4 children, 3 sons >> and one daughter: Alfonso, now a merchant at Waynetown, Indiana; Will H, >> a merchant-tailor at Peru, Indiana, Frank, deceased, Jennie May. The >> older of two sons, Russell Lowell was born at Veedersburg, Indiaan June >> 5, 1893. He graduated from the Crawfordsvill! > e ! >> High School in 1912 and Wabash College with class of 1917. He was a >> member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Immediately after leaving Wabash >> he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and >> received his coveted position as 2nd Lt. He was first assigned to depot >> brigade duty at Camp Zachary Taylor, KY and was transferred to the school >> of arms for special instruction at Camp Perry, Ohio where he was awarded >> a medal as sharp shooter. Then came his later assignment as instructor >> of arms at Camp Cody, New Mexico where he remained at his post of duty >> until the close of the war. Herbert Sumner Hesler, the youngest son was >> born at Veedersburg, Nov 24, 1897. He graduated from Crawfordsville HS >> in 1915 and entered Wabash College. He was also a member of Kappa Sigma >> Fraternity. During 1918 he took special intensive military training for 3 >> months at Harvard Univesrity and was then assigned as Sgt. and instructor >> in the Students Army Training Corps at Wab! > as! >> h College. Nov. 13 two days after the signing of the armistice, he wa >> s selected to enter Camp Grant to train for a commission. The Hesler >> home is at 222 W. Main Street in Crawfordsville, and it was there that >> Mr. Hesler after retiring from law practice spent his time in delightful >> companionship with his family, his books and his friends. he was a >> member of the Christian Church, the Masonic Order and Tribe of Ben-Hur. >> >> http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ >> >> List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message