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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