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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [308-311]

           FRANCIS ETZLER, farmer, section 28, Hume Township, was born
        Nov. 19, 1837, in Prussia. His parents, ANTOINE and JOANNA
        (HOUCKEY) ETZLER, were natives of Germany, where they belonged to
        the agricultural class. They came to the United States in 1853, and
        after a brief stay in Buffalo, N.Y., they moved to Geauga Co.,
        Ohio, and some three years later to Port Austin, Huron Co., Mich.
        Their mother died there Oct. 3, 1857, and the father and three sons
        determined to found a home in the (then) unbroken wilderness of
        Hume Township. They secured a half section of land situated on
        sections 28 and 29, which was afterward divided among the three
        sons.
           MR. ETZLER, of this sketch, is the proprietor of 110 acres of
        the original tract. He suffered comparatively heavy losses in the
        fire of 1871, when two barns, with their contents, and the major
        portion of a fine orchard were destroyed. The latter has been
        replaced.  MR. ETZLER has cleared and otherwise improved 80 acres,
        which is his homestead and where he has a new residence and good
        farm buildings.
           Politically MR. ETZLER is a Republican.
           He was first married April 24, 1863, in Dwight Township, to
        HANNAH KAASE. She died Aug. 13, 1878, and left seven living child-
        ren: JOHANNA, FRANKLIN, ALBERT, CONRAD, ANTHONY, LUCINDA and
        MATILDA. ROBERT died three years before his mother. Her death was
        caused by abscess of the liver, from which she suffered five years.
        MR. ETZLER was a second time married, Oct. 22, 1879, at East Sagi-
        naw, to MRS. MARY (MYERS) ZELLNAR, widow of POWELL ZELLNAR. Six
        children were born of her first marriage.  MARY E., MARGARET,
        PAULINA, SOPHIA, BARBARA and POWELL. The latter is deceased. One
        child, MINNIE, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. ETZLER.  The mother
        was born in Switzerland, Dec. 13, 1840.  She came to the United
        States when she was 23 years of age, with a brother and sister, and
        located in Dwight Township, where she remained until her marriage.

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