San Diego County Biographies
 
SYLYESTER STATLER

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County Treasurer of San Diego County, was born in Piqna, Miami County, Ohio, 
August 21, 1843. His father, Stephen Statler, was born in 1817, in the same 
town; and his mother, whose maiden name was Nancy Stewart, was born in 1820, 
also in the same place. Their five children are all still living, namely: 
Stewart, Amanda, Franklin, Sylvester and William.
        At the age of eighteen years Sylvester and Franklin volunteered to do 
what they could to put down the Rebellion, enlisting in Company K, First Ohio 
Infantry, September 8, 1861, and joining their regiment at Camp Corwin. Being 
soon attached to the Army of the Ohio, in command of General Buell, they marched 
to Mumfordville, Kentucky, and went into winter quarters; and here Mr. Statler 
was taken sick and was sent home on furlough; and after partly recovering he 
joined his regiment at Columbus, Tennessee, and subsequently participated in the 
battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and followed Sherman 
in his great march to the sea. Their time expiring when near Atalanta he and his 
brother were honorably discharged, neither of them having received a scratch in 
any of their engagements; then, in company with their brother-in-law, W. M. 
Girard, they were engaged in a flour and saw mill for six months. Then Mr. 
Statler attended a commercial course at Poughkeepsie, New York, and next, in 
partnership with his brother Stewart, he was employed for three years in the 
commission business in Chicago; and then he clerked two years for a Missouri 
River packet company at Leavenworth, Kansas. June 8, 1871, he arrived in San 
Francisco, and on the 17th in San Diego. Here he at first engaged for some time 
in the real-estate business; was Deputy County Clerk in 1873�'77; County 
Treasurer in 1877�'83, being elected twice on the Republican ticket; and since 
that time he has been thrice elected County Treasurer, namely, in 1884, 1886 and 
1888. These facts are sufficient to demonstrate the high moral, social and 
business character of our subject. He is a member of the orders of K. of P. and 
G. A. R. He was married in February, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Peas, a native of 
Licking County, Ohio, born in 1847. Her parents died when she was very young, 
and she was brought up by her grandfather, Samuel Peas, a native of 
Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Relief Corps of the G. A. R., and also of 
the Woman's Exchange, a charitable institution for the relief of poor women. Mr. 
and Mrs. Statler were school�mates, and therefore have been acquainted with each 
other from childhood.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  264