BIO: Elias KOHLER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 28

ELIAS KOHLER, proprietor of the Central Hotel, was born in York Township, April 
15, 1845, and is a son of Jacob and Anna (Sechrist) Kohler.  Mr. Kohler is the 
eighth in a family of nine children and is of German descent.  Mr. Kohler worked 
for his father on the farm until twenty-one years of age, when he began for 
himself.  He went to Dallastown and engaged in the butchering business, remained 
there two years, then came to York and continued the same business for three 
years and then engaged in the livery business, which he continued three years; 
he then became proprietor of the Central Hotel.  In 1881 Mr. Kohler invented 
what is known as the Kohler Improved Cattle Car, one of the best improvements of 
the kind ever invented.  Our subject was married in 1868, to Miss Harriet 
Peeling, daughter of John Peeling.  They have four children:  Minnie A., Chauncy 
C., Gertrude and Erle C.  Mr. Kohler is a Democrat and a member of the I. O. O. 
F.  He has been a member of the town council and is a popular man.