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Jacob Hoelzle


JACOB HOELZLE, proprietor of meat market, was born in Baden, Germany, March 15, 1841. His parents were Stephen and Fredericka (Scheible) Hoelzle, who spent their lives in Germany. Our subject learned the butcher's trade in his father's shop, and in October, 1860, he immigrated to Sharon. in the spring of 1868 he opened a meat market, in which business he has ever since been engaged. Mr. Hoelzle was married March 8, 1864, to Miss Louisa, daughter of Ignatz Dahringer, a native of Baden, Germany, who immigrated to New Castle, Penn., in 1848, moving from there to Lowellville, Ohio, and from there to Sharon, where he now resides. Mrs. Hoelzle was born in Germany, and is the mother of ten children, six of whom are living: Emma, wife of John Wagner, of Sharon; Mary, Frank, George, Elizabeth and Elmer. William died aged fourteen years, and the three others in infancy. Mr. Hoelzle is a Republican, and a member of the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F. and P. H. C., and his family belong to the German Reformed Church.

History of Mercer County, 1888, page 731


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