Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Hermann O. E. DIESTLER of Hortonville

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SUBJECT: Biography of Hermann O. E. DIESTLER of Hortonville
SUBMITTER: Janice Marasch     
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
DATE SUBMITTED: 16 July 1999
SURNAMES: DIESTLER
SOURCE: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown,
Outagamie and Winnebago, J.H. Beers & Co, p. 866, 1895


BIOGRAPHY:
Hermann O. E. DIESTLER


HERMANN O. E. DIESTLER. The record of successful business men needs no introductory
preface among the citizens of their native county, and the gentleman who is the subject of this
sketch is undoubtedly a member of the class just referred to.  By his strict personal integrity and
honorable dealings, combined with brilliant business qualifications, he has become not only one
of the leading manufacturers, but also one of the most highly respected citizens of Outagamie
county.
Mr. Diestler is a son of Charles and Julia (Kluge) Diestler.  He received his elementary
education in the parochial schools of Washington county, Wis., and later, while learning his
trade, that of a carpenter, he took a course of study in the Business College at Milwaukee, Wis. 
He continued to work at carpentry until 1888, when he purchased a half interest in a saw and
feed mill opposite the site of his present place of business (which is situated in Hortonville), and
the same year added to it a planing-mill.  Two years later he bought the premises, he now
occupies, from W. K. Rydock, from time to time adding improvements thereto in the way of new
machinery, etc., until today he has one of the finest and best equipped lumber and planing-mills
in the county, having every facility for carrying on a large and rapidly increasing business.  Mr.
Diestler commenced for himself at the age of twenty-three, with a capital of $1,400. and his
business has steadily increased until to-day the output amounts to over $70,000 a year, He is also
a stockholder in the new gold mines lately opened up near Hortonville.  He and his family are
members of the Lutheran Church; in his political views he is a Republican, and has been
chairman of the town of Hortonville for one year.  Our subject married Elizabeth Foester, a
native of Bavaria, daughter of John and Maria Foester, and their union has been blessed with
five children-four sons and one daughter, viz.: Hermann, Edmund, Henry, Alena and Arimn, all
still residing with their parents in Hortonville.
The Diestler family are natives of Brandenburg, near Berlin, Germany, and the parents of our
subject removed to the United States in August, 1868, first locating in Washington county, Wis.,
thence removed to Outagamie county, December 23, i875, where the father of our subject
follows farming, and is a prominent and highly respected citizen.  They had born to them eleven
children, eight of whom survive, viz. : Charles, residing in Hortonville; Albertina, wife of
Gottlieb Magedanz, residing in Dale; Hermann O. E.; Otto; Robert, who is connected with his
brother in the mill; Albert, William, and Annie; Hattie, Erman and Erns died while young, of
diphtheria.