- JOHN LEGLER, one of the respected and leading business men
of Green county, a dealer in
- livestock, grain, lumber and coal at Juda, has not only made
for himself a fine reputation as a businessman, but has accumulated
a very comfortable competence by the exercise of those natural
endowments of a clear-sighted and practical mind, an honest disposition,
and industrious habits, that win success anywhere.
- Mr. LEGLER is a son of David and Elizabeth LEGLER, of Green
county, Wis., who came from
- Switzerland in 1847, and settled in the northern part of
Green county, in company with a large colony of their compatriots.
The father took up government land, and made a farm in the wilderness,
where he lived and died. Of his sixteen children, seven were
born to his first marriage, with Barbara LEGLER. But two of these
survive: Andrew, of Green county, Wis.; and David, who is a farmer
in Nebraska. The others died in childhood. Of the children by
his second wife, the following survived to maturity: John, whose
name appears above; Jacob, who is clerk in a lumber yard in Green
county; Fredolin, a farmer in Iowa; and Elizabeth, wife of Peter
CLASSY, of New Glarus, Wis. The others died in infancy. David
LEGLER died in 1887, at the age of eighty-four.
- John LEGLER was born April 5, 1852, and on March 2, 1871
married Miss Mary BLUMER,
- of Green county, Wis., a daughter of John and Mary BLUMER,
of that county. They have had four children: Elizabeth, born
in 1873, wife of Albert BABLER, of Monticello, Wis.; John L.,
born in 1879, in business with his father; Wilma K., born Feb.
13, 1884, now a student at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.;
and Mary, who died in infancy.
- John LEGLER began life as a farmer's boy with somewhat limited
educational advantages. His
- entire schooling was not more than a year in all, but he
has had the teaching of experience, and is a keen, observant
character. When he married he started out in life a poor man,
and followed farming until he was thirty-five years of age. At
that age he gave up farming and came to Juda to engage in his
present business. Mr. LEGLER has become very well-to-do, and
is one of the leading men of the village.
- Mr. LEGLER is a stanch Prohibitionist, and attended the national
convention of that party which
- was held in Chicago in July, 1900. He belongs to the Good
Templars. He has served as town chairman and school director.
Mr. LEGLER is a man of fine mind, clear views, and takes a strong
interest in everything that relates to the general good of the
community. His genial nature and accommodating spirit have made
him many friends.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 850.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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