Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Wetzel, David H 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

David H. Wetzel is a retired farmer of Hopkins Township, and resides on 
section 27. His parents John and Margaret (Reese) Wetzel, were born in 
Pennsylvania and were of German lineage. They went thence in 1814 to Ohio, 
whence they came in 1855 to Whiteside County. The father, a direct descendant 
of Lewis Wetzel, the Indian hunter, died in Genesee Township, Sept. 18, 1860. 
The death of the mother occurred Feb. 2, 1882. Their children were born in the 
order named: Catherine, Daniel, Jacob, John, George, Elizabeth, David R., 
Andrew, Joseph, Hannah, Margaret and Louis. Mr. Wetzel was born April 7, 1823, 
in Summit Co., Ohio. He attended the public schools of his native State, and 
afterwards was interested in farming there until his removal in the fall of 
1855 to Whiteside County. He was a farmer in Genesee Township until the spring 
of 1883, when he changed his residence to Hopkins Township, where he had 
bought a farm during the previous fall. The combined area of his land in the 
townships of Genesee and Hopkins is 640 acres, and the entire extent is under 
tillage. He has rented his estate and is living in quiet retirement. He has 
built up his possessions by industry and economy, having begun in the world by 
small means, and has made his way unaided. He is one of the heaviest land-
holders in Whiteside County, and in politics is identified with the Republican 
party. The publishers of this Album take pleasure in presenting a fine 
lithographic portrait of Mr. Wetzel in connection with this sketch.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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