THEODORE GEBLER
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 656

Theodor Gebler was an early settler in Nogales and has been 
connected with many phases of its business and political 
development since taking up his residence here in 1886. He 
was engaged in the hardware business in one location for 
twenty eight years but sold out in 1914. He is interested 
in mining property and is a director of the First National 
Bank.


Mr. Gebler is a native of Germany, born in Berlin, July 1, 
1831, and there he attended the German Military Academy, 
afterward learning the trade of a tinsmith.  When he was 
nineteen years of age he came to the United States, working 
at his trade for six years, thereafter in New York, and 
finally going west to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus 
of Panama.  He located in that city in 1856 and after 
working as a tinsmith for a short period opened a shop of 
his own on Clay Street  where he conducted a profitable and 
well managed business, later adding hardware to his line of 
tin goods.  He was during this time a member of the famous 
Vigilante Committee in San Francisco and a man prominent as 
a member of the common council and he continued his 
identification with the hardware business there until 1879 
when a pleasure journey to Arizona influenced him in making 
a permanent location to the state, where he has since 
resided.  His first settlement was made in Tucson whence 
in 1886 he removed to Nogales, building the first American 
house in the city and establishing a hardware business, 
which he conducted in the same shop for twenty eight years.  
He later aided in organizing the First National Bank and took 
an active part in the foundation of this institution of which 
he was for a time vice president and is still a director.  He 
owns valuable mining property in the Patagonia district.

Mr. Gebler was married in New York City in 1851 to Louisia 
Waldman, who died in 1910 and the five children born to them 
are also deceased.

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