Bio of KISTLER, Dr. Jonas M. (b.1856), Hennepin Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden
Submitted: June 2003
=========================================================================
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
========================================================
EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
========================================================

Vol III, pg 528-531
JONAS M. KISTLER, M. D.
For forty years Dr. Jonas M. Kistler has engaged in the practice of medicine and
surgery in Minneapolis, having long since become well established as a most
capable physician and one who at all times holds closely to the highest ethical
standards of the calling. He was born September 9, 1856, in Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, and represents one of the old and honored pioneer families of that
state, the first representatives of the name having come to America prior to the
Revolutionary war, at which time settlement was made in Pennsylvania. His
parents were David D. and Mary A. Kistler. The father was a farmer by occupation
and the son, Jonas M. Kistler, spent his youthful days on the old homestead farm
in Schuylkill county, working in the fields through the summer months and in the
winter seasons attending the neighborhood schools. He afterward became a student
in the Lehighton high school, where he pursued his preparatory work, and later
he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for six years in rural
schools. Thinking to devote his life to the teaching profession, he entered the
Keystone State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1880, but by the
time he had completed his course there he had decided to enter upon preparation
for the medical profession. Accordingly he matriculated in the Franklin and
Marshall College of Pennsylvania, where he studied for two years, and then at
the beginning of his junior year entered the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated, obtaining his M. D. degree as a
member of the class of 1883.
The opportunities of the growing west attracted Dr. Kistler, and recognizing the
advantages to be enjoyed in Minneapolis, he came to this city, where he entered
upon active practice. Forty years have come and gone and Dr. Kistler still
remains an active representative of the profession, having enjoyed throughout
the intervening period a liberal patronage which has fully attested the high
degree of confidence entertained for him by his fellow townsmen. He is a member
of the Hennepin County Medical Society and also of the Minnesota State Medical
Society. He has lived on the same corner since 1883 and there owns an excellent
business block, which was in the midst of a tract of wooded land when he first
took up his abode at that location.
In 1887 Dr. Kistler was married to Miss Minnie A. Anderson and they have four
children: Alvin, Olive, Marie and Helen. Dr. Kistler is of the Lutheran faith
and attends St. John's church. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party and upon its ticket he was elected to the office of coroner of
Hennepin county for the term of 1894-5. In 1905 he was reelected to that
position, which he continued to fill for three years. He was also chosen one of
the aldermen of the city and occupied the position for two terms (eight years).
Fraternally he is connected with the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Woodmen and the Workmen, and he is a most loyal representative of these
orders. His faithfulness to duty has ever been one of his marked
characteristics, whether it has led to the field of political, fraternal or
professional activity. His ideals are high and his service has been of marked
benefit to the public along many lines.