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

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           WILLIAM ETZLER, farmer, section 28, Hume Township, was born
        June 18, 1840, in Prussia, and is the son of ANTOINE and JOANNA
        (HOUCKEY) ETZLER. He was 12 years of age when his parents and
        brothers came to this country. They resided a year in Buffalo,
        N.Y., and went thence to Geauga Co., Ohio. Three years later they
        removed to Port Austin, where the mother died soon after.
           In the late fall of 1857 the father and three sons settled on
        320 acres of land, situated on sections 28 and 29 in Hume Township,
        which they purchased under the Graduation Act. They lived together
        five years, and at the end of that time made a division of the
        land, WILLIAM receiving 106 acres, the farms of his brothers lying
        on either side. He took possession of the place and entered upon
        the work of improvement. Of the original acreage 70 acres have been
        placed in the best possible agricultural condition, with two large
        barns, a granary and as fine a residence as there is in the town-
        ship.
           MR. ETZLER is a Republican in political faith.
           He was married Sept. 16, 1863, to SOPHIA EMPKIE, at Port Austin,
        and they have seven children, viz: WILLIAM, FREDERICK, CHARLES,
        EMMA, EDWARD, NELLIE and LIBBIE.  MRS. ETZLER was born Dec. 18,
        1846, in Prussia, and came to Michigan from her native country when
        she was 11 years old, settling at Port Austin.
           Mr. and Mrs. ETZLER are respectively members of the Catholic and
        Lutheran Churches.

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