BIO: BENJAMIN W. HOSLER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 266-267
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    BENJAMIN W. HOSLER, one of the live, active business men of Carlisle, Was
  born in North Middleton township, Cumberland county, Jan. 13, 1860, a son of
  Benjamin and Elizabeth (Mordorf) Hosler.
    
    The Hosler family is of German descent, and was founded in America at an
  early day. Benjamin Hosler, the father, was a native of Lancaster county,
  Pa., came to Cumberland county with his mother when a young man, and here
  learned the trade of a carpenter and builder, and for years was one of the
  leading contractors of Cumberland county. His home was about one and one-half
  miles north of Carlisle, where he owned a small farm on which many of the
  buildings standing to-day are evidences of his enterprise and thrift. About
  1849 or 1850 he went to California, and engaged in gold mining for some
  eighteen months. In 1873 he went to the eastern part of North Carolina,
  locating near Newbern, and manufactured lumber for seventeen years. Returning
  to Carlisle, he associated his son Benjamin W. with him in a creamery
  business. Mr. Hosler died Jan. 20, 1902, aged eighty years, and his excellent
  wife, who was a native of Cumberland county, died in 1876, aged fifty-eight
    
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  years. Both were members of the German Reformed Church. Their children were
  as follows: John T., deceased; Amanda, wife of Adam Egolf, of Harrisburg;
  Sarah, who married Jerome Kauffman of Carlisle; and Benjamin W.
    
    Benjamin W. Hosler, the youngest of the family, was reared on the farm and
  educated in the public schools. Like many another farmer's boy, upon ending
  his public school career he began to teach school himself, continuing thus
  for nine years in Cumberland county, after which he spent three years in
  North Carolina with his father. Returning to Carlisle, in 1890, he engaged in
  the creamery business, and since about 1893 he has had charge of the entire
  business, operating several creameries, including one in Carlisle which he
  founded upon locating in the city in 1893. He manufactures butter, the
  product being marketed to Philadelphia and Camden, and also operates a milk
  department which is one of the best in the city. In 1899 he began the
  manufacture of ice cream, which enterprise has grown to considerable
  proportions, Mr. Hosler selling at wholesale in different portions of the
  country, as well as to the retail trade. In the spring of 1903 he established
  a wholesale and retail milk and ice cream depot at Harrisburg (the ice cream 
  being manufactured in Carlisle), and he also has an extensive creamery at or
  near Bainbridge, in Lancaster county.
    
    Mr. Hosler has taken considerable interest in politics as a Republican, and
  represents the First ward in the council, although that ward is strongly
  Democratic; he carried it by a majority of 132. Fraternally he is a member of
  the A. F. & A. M., Cumberland Star Lodge, No. 197, and St. John Chapter; of
  the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 91; of the K. of P., No. 56; of the I. O. R. M.,
  Letort Lodge; of the Royal Arcanum, and the Fraternal Mystic Circle.
    
    In 1883 Mr. Hosler was married to Miss Lizzie Gutshall, a daughter of Jacob
  Gutshall, of Cumberland county, and four children have been born to them:
  Edith, Edna, Harold, and Norman, deceased. They are all members of the
  Reformed Church, in the work of which they take an active part, and their
  pleasant home is at No. 535 North Bedford street, where they welcome their
  many friends.