BIO: Rush Norman HOSLER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 949 & 950.
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  RUSH NORMAN HOSLER, a progressive young business man and representative 
citizen of Morris township, has been chief engineer for the Morrisdale Coal 
Company, at the Morrisdale Mines, Clearfield county, Pa., for the past nine 
years.  He was born in Fishing Creek, Columbia county, Pa., August 8, 1874, and 
is a son of White N. and Mary Ellen (Dreisbach) Hosler.
  The parents of Mr. Hosler were both natives of Columbia county, where the 
father was born April 18, 1843, and the mother, July 6, in the same year.  White 
N. Hosler served more than three years as a soldier in the Civil war and was a 
member of the 143rd Pa. Vol. Inf.  This regiment lost heavily and Mr. Hosler was 
transferred from one company to another and received his honorable discharge 
from Company I, after the battle of the Wilderness, in which he lost his good 
right arm.  He took part in many notable engagements, including Gettysburg.  
After he left the service he attended a school for wounded soldiers, at 
Philadelphia, and afterward taught school, both before and after marriage, and 
later was engaged in the mercantile business for a number of years.  His death 
occurred September 8, 1901.
  In 1867 White N. Hosler was married to Ellen Dreisbach, and one daughter and 
three sons were born to them, namely:  Annie E., who lives with her mother in 
Columbia county; William C., who is a chemist, lives at Benton, Columbia county, 
and married Emma Hartman; Rush Norman; and Frank Kent, the youngest, who is 
chief inspector for the Standard Steel Car Company, at Hammond, Ind., and 
married Maud Morton, of Erie, Pa.
  Rush Norman Hosler was educated in the Jonestown public schools, New Columbus 
Academy, in Luzerne county, and the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, 
graduating from this institution in 1896.  For about eighteen months he was 
engaged in Y. M. C. A. work and then started with a railroad engineering corps, 
working on the proposed line of the Independent Anthracite Coal operators and 
remaining with that body of hard workers through one summer.  He then became 
connected with the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company in the engineering 
department, and continued until the spring of 1900.  Mr. Hosler then went to the 
West and located as an engineer at Alderson, in what was then Indian Territory, 
where he was employed by the McAllister Coal Company and remained one year, 
becoming then chief engineer for the Wilberton Coal Mining Company at Wilberton, 
Indian Territory, where he remained until July 1, 1902, when he accepted his 
present responsible position.
  Mr. Hosler was married September 19, 1901, to Miss Margaret McGhee, of 
Audenried, a daughter of John E. and Hannah McGhee.  John E. McGhee was master 
mechanic for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company.  Mrs. Hosler was reared 
and educated in Carbon county and for several years prior to her marriage was a 
successful teacher.  Mr. and Mrs. Hosler have one son, Norman White, who was 
born April 1, 1905.  Mr. Hosler is a member of Philipsburg Lodge, No. 391, F. & 
A. M.; Williamsport Consistory; Clearfield Chapter and Jaffa Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine, at Altoona.  He belongs also to the Coal Mining Institute of 
America and the Western Pennsylvania Engineering Society at Pittsburg.  In 
politics he has always been a firm Republican and is serving as supervisor of 
Morris township, having been elected on a cash tax basis.  He served as 
president of the Supervisors Association of Clearfield county.  With his wife he 
belongs to the Presbyterian church at Philipsburg, in which he is an elder.