HUBLER-William - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

William HUBLER, farmer, Veedersburg, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1807, and came to Fountain county with his mother in 1828, His parents, Jacob and Margaret Hubler, were both natives of Pennsylvania. The former died when William was but six years old, aged sixty years. The latter emigrated to Ohio in 1826 in company with a number of the Hubler family where she remained till she came here in 1828, bringing five children, four of whom are still living, three in Illinois, and William in Van Buren township, two and a half miles north of Chambersburg. Margaret Hubler died in 1860 at the ripe old age of eighty-five. William Hubler’s great paternal grandfather emigrated to America from Germany some time after the war of the revolution. His grandfather John Hubler, was a native of Pennsylvania and died in Ohio. His maternal grandfather, Michael Brown, was a native of Germany. William Hubler and his relatives as a rule were and are strict church-going people, most of them members of the United Brethren. He has filled all the offices in the church belonging to the laity and is an ordained minister same and rode as circuit preacher some two years of his life, but disliking Pastoral life he discontinued it. He now lives on his farm of 122 acres, which is in a good state of cultivation. He is an active supporter of temperance and all moralizing institutions.