MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: BETTELON, John (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio" by W.H. Beers & Co.  1882


John Bettelon, saloon and restaurant, Dayton, was born January 13, 1829, in the 
city of Dayton, where his father came directly from Germany. his grandparents 
both lived and died in Germany, which was also the birthplace of his father who 
came to this county and married Miss Barbara Nauerth of Dayton, by whom he had 
six children, three boys and three girls.  He departed this life in 1852, and
was followed by his wife on Christmas Day, 1879.  Our subject received a 
common-school education and then served a full term of apprenticeship to a 
baker, followed by a full term to a confectioner which occupied the time 
from 1841 to 1847, when he began to run on the river as a pastry cook.  In 1852
he quit the river and, with J.V. Nauerth, opened a saloon and restaurant in the
Cooper House, opposite the Market House on Main street, where he continued until
1858, when he went into the wholesale liquor business.  He next, in 1871, 
engaged in the banking business in the People's and Savings Bank, where he 
remained for five years, or until 1876, when he again went into the 
wholesale liquor business, which he afterward changed into his present
establishment.  He now has a large and convenient saloon and restaurant where a
man can have all or any of his wants supplied, and is meeting with the success
his enterprise and industry merit.  In 1858 he married Miss Mary Ann Mouter, of
Dayton, and has had born to him seven children, four boys and three girls.


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