Frank Geisler

    Frank Geisler was born in Hagerstown, Wayne County, Indiana, July 31, 1864. His father, George Geisler, was a native of Bavaria, Germany, a shoemaker by trade, came to America at the age of eighteen, and died in Hartford City in 1873, at the age of forty-five years. Mrs. Geisler, nee Anne Magdalena Rife, was a native of Wittemburg, Germany, came to this county at the age of sixteen, and is still living.

    Frank was about seven years of age when his parents settled in Hartford City, and at the age of sixteen he entered the office of the Telegram to learn the printer's trade. Three years afterward he went to Chicago, where he was employed for a short time in the office of the Chicago Telegram. Afterward he visited Milwaukee, and various points in Illinois and Wisconsin and Minnesota, and Chicago again for a short period, when, in the spring of 1885, he returned tot he scenes of his boyhood, Hartford City, and in December following formed the partnership listed below. Mr. Geisler was brought up in the Lutheran Church, is quiet in his manner, liberal in disposition and industrious in his habits.

Hartford City Times

        This is a Republican paper of respectable proportions, although young. the first number was dated December 10, 1885, and fully edited. The editors and proprietors, Messrs. Huffman & Geisler, like their paper are young but far advanced in journalistic ability, and are men of strictest integrity and highest moral standing. Office on Jefferson Street east side of the public square.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.