BIO:  Samuel 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

SAMUEL H. BUEHLER (deceased) was born at Lebanon, Penn., July 12, 1783.  He 
learned the saddlery business, and subsequently moved to York, where he married 
Miss Catharine Danner, and engaged in merchandising.  In 1818 he moved to 
Gettysburg and opened a drug and book store, which he carried on until his death 
in 1856, assisted by his son, Alexander D. Buehler, who conducted the business 
after his father’s death, and still conducts it in the same building, the 
largest drug and book store in the county.  Mr. Buehler was actively and 
prominently identified with the Evangelical Lutheran Church; became treasurer of 
the general synod and general agent of its various publications, and was largely 
instrumental in securing the location at Gettysburg of the theological seminary 
of the Lutheran Church.  He was one of the founders of Christ Church, 
Gettysburg; was a member of the building committee, and served as elder from the 
organization of the church until his death.  In 1838 he was elected a patron and 
also trustee of Pennsylvania College; in 1839 he was elected treasurer of that 
institution, and served as trustee and treasurer until his death, when he was 
succeeded by his son, Alexander D. Buehler, the present treasurer, father and 
son thus continuously filling that position for a period of forty-eight years.  
Mr. Buehler died at Gettysburg September 7, 1856, leaving four sons and four 
daughters, all of whom are still living and reside in Gettysburg.