Butte County
Biographies
HENRY SOLOMON HOSLER
HENRY SOLOMON HOSLER.--Well known and liked by all who know him, Henry Solomon Hosler has been a resident of Butte County since the early seventies. He is a native of Illinois, born in Naperville, July 7, 1850. His father, Benjamin, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Illinois with his parents in the early days when Illinois was a frontier state, where grandfather Jacob Benjamin Hosler farmed and where he died. Henry Hosler’s father was also a farmer and died in 1865, at the age of forty-three. His mother, Chestina Henninger in her maidenhood, a native of the Buckeye state, came with her parents in early pioneer days to Illinois. She died in Illinois, the mother of four children.
Henry Solomon Hosler, next to the oldest child, is the only one now living. He was brought up on a farm in Illinois. His father was an invalid and young Henry, from a lad, worked on a farm at the small compensation of sixteen dollars per month to help support the family. After the death of the father he continued to help support his mother by farm work, and, in 1873, came to Butte County, where he received thirty-five dollars a month. Frugal in his habits, he saved his money and two years later was married, in Marysville, to Mrs. Mary Edwards Molter, a widow with one child, Mary V. Molter, now of Chico, by her first marriage. Mrs. Hosler was a native of Missouri and crossed the plains with her parents in early days. Mr. and Mrs. Hosler, after their marriage engaged in farming. They owned one hundred sixty acres north of Chico, and later bought one hundred sixty acres more adjoining from the wife’s mother, Susan Bryson, and raised grain and stock until 1913, when they sold the ranch and located in Chico, where Mr. Hosler engaged in teaming to pass the time. His wife died in 1915. He had two children by this marriage: Louis A., a high school graduate, who is married and father of one child and who is mail carrier for the Chico Post Office; and George W., a graduate of the Chico State Normal, married and the father of two children, and who is a bookkeeper in Redding.
Mr. Hosler was made an Odd Fellow in Naperville in 1871, and is now a member of the Chico Lodge, No. 113, I. O. O. F. In 1917 he made his first trip, in forty-three years, to his old Eastern home, where he found many changes. He visited the old lodge, of which but one remained of those who were member when he was initiated. In politics his affiliations are Republican, and he is faithful to the tenets of his party.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 554, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2007 Joyce Rugeroni.
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