BIO:  Col. C. H. BUEHLER, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 351

COL. C. H. BUEHLER, merchant, Gettysburg, a son of the late Samuel H. Buehler, 
whose sketch appears above, was born in the town in which he is now a resident, 
February 9, 1825.  He is next to the youngest of eleven children, and pursued 
his studies in Pennsylvania College as far as the close of the sophomore year, 
when he withdrew from the institution and learned the printing trade in the 
office of the Adams Sentinel, after which he became associate editor with his 
brother, David A., on the Star.  This business he was compelled to give up on 
account of failing health, and in 1858 he embarked in the coal and lumber 
business.  On the breaking out of the war he entered the Union Army in the three 
months service as captain of a company.  Subsequently he was commissioned major 
of the Eighty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and as such 
served for a year and a half, when he was commissioned colonel of the One 
Hundred and Sixty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, retaining the 
command nine months, the period of enlistment of the regiment.  He then returned 
to Gettysburg and resumed his business, in connection with which he has had the 
agency of the Adams Express Company for twenty-six years past.  He has been 
twice burgess of Gettysburg and is now a director of the Gettysburg Battle-field 
Memorial Association.  He is identified with Post No. 9, G. A. R.; is Past 
Master in the Masonic order, and has passed all the chairs of the I. O. O. F.  
Col. Buehler, in 1860, was married to Anna Fahnestock, daughter of John 
Fahnestock, of German extraction, and to them have been born three sons, one 
surviving, Harry F., who has just graduated from Pennsylvania College.  Col. 
Buehler is a member of the Lutheran Church and his wife of the Episcopal.  The 
Colonel is a Republican of pronounced type.