BIO: George BUEHLER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 202.
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  BUEHLER, GEORGE, the son of Henry Buehler, a soldier of the 
Revolution, and Jane Trotter, was born near the town of Lebanon, Pa., 
in July 1776.  His parents were Moravians; they lie buried in Mount 
Hebron burying ground, and were life-long members of the old Hebron 
church.  George received a good English and German education at the 
celebrated Moravian school at Lititz, and was subsequently brought up 
to mercantile pursuits.  He was commissioned by Governor Mifflin 
justice of the peace for Lebanon township December 3, 1799.  The year 
following, under the auspices of the Harrisburg and Presqu' Isle Land 
Company, he removed to Erie, and was appointed in August, 1801, by 
President Jefferson, collector of the Eighteenth Collection District of 
Pennsylvania.  Mr. Buehler took a prominent part in the affairs 
connected with the early organization of Erie county.  At his 
residence, on the 2d of April, 1803 that county was organized for 
judicial purposes.  He was a member of the first council of the town of 
Erie in 1806, and in 1808 and 1809 was borough burgess.  He was one of 
the first to aid in developing the Lake Erie trade, foreseeing at that 
early day the advantages of that magnificent port of the lakes.  In 
1811-12 he was a member of the Erie Light Infantry, Captain Forster, 
which was in active service during a portion of that period.  In 1812, 
owing probably to the war troubles on the frontiers, he came to 
Harrisburg and took charge of the "Golden Eagle."  He died at 
Harrisburg on the 5th of August, 1816, aged forty years.  Mr. Buehler 
married previous to removing to Erie, Maria, daughter of Peter Nagle, 
of Reading.  She was born December 25; 1779, and died at Harrisburg 
July 27, 1843; a lady of great amiability of character.  Mr. Buehler 
was a man of sterling integrity, and his brief life was one of 
activity, enterprise and industry.  At Erie he stood high in the esteem 
of its citizens, and at Harrisburg his appreciation was one the less.