BIO:  David A. 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

DAVID A. BUEHLER, editor and attorney at law at Gettysburg, son of Samuel H. and 
Catharine D. Buehler, was born in Gettysburg January 2, 1821.  He served an 
apprenticeship to the printing business in the office of the Adams Sentinel; 
graduated from Pennsylvania College with the class of 1843; was admitted to the 
bar in 1856; editor of the Star from 1845 to 1857, and editor of the 
consolidated Star and Sentinel from 1867 to this date.  He has served in various 
local offices, school director, member of town council, justice of the peace, 
postmaster, etc.  He has been one of the trustees of Pennsylvania College since 
1852; was secretary of the board from 1852 to 1867, and has been president of 
the board since 1870.  He has also been for many years director of the 
theological seminary; member of the council of Christ Lutheran Church, and 
superintendent of the Sunday school since 1853; frequently a delegate to the 
General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States; one of 
the directors and vice-president of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial 
Association.  November 10, 1849, Mr. Buehler married Miss Frances J. Guyon, of 
Rahway, N.J.