[196-20b] DAVID WAGENER DESHLER, same as above, m 2nd time, July 20, 1829, MAR- GARET NASHEE, b 1809; d June 1, 1854; dau George N. Nashée of Chillicothe, Ohio.
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David W. Deshler was born in Allentown, Pa., and went to Columbus, Ohio, in 1817. In August of that year he built a two room frame house. It is interesting to note that the present Hotel Deshler, owned by a grandson, Mr. John G. Deshler, stands on the site of this home; its exact location Mr. Deshler recently marked by placing a gold tablet on a column in the lobby of the hotel.
For the last thirty-seven years of his life, David W. Deshler was a banker in Columbus, where he became one of the leading financiers. Coming to Columbus when it was little more than a village, David Deshler may rightly be regarded as one of its early citizens, who by their struggles, privations, and enterprise helped to make it a rich and prosperous city. In addition to becoming a prominent banker, Mr. Deshler was one of the most respected citizens of the city, and upon his death the bankers of Columbus passed the following resolution:
“Resolved: That in the life and character of Mr. Deshler we recognize those qualities of head and heart which eause a man to be respected and loved by his fellow citizens. As a banker, he was prompt, accurate in judgment, frank, ready to assume all proper responsibility, and faithful to the interest confided in him. He was sympathetic and kind to those who applied to him in their necessities, and ready to deal liberally with the misfortunes, and even leniently with the faults of others; and the suecess of his business life shows the wisdom of his conduct. To young men he was an encouraging and true friend, and to the old a wise and beneficent counsellor.—tIn all his business career, he was a man of unquestioned integrity and unblemished honor. As a citizen, Mr. Deshler was enterprising and public spirited. Proud of the city, he encouraged and assisted in her public improvements; gave his counte-~ nance and support to all her institutions, and cheerfully bore his share of the public burdens, and contributed to her charities. As a neighbor, he was cheerful, hopeful, intelligent, and friendly, ‘with charity for all and malice towards none.’ ”
David W. Deshler belonged to a family that came from Germany to America before 1723, and settled in Allentown, Pa., in which State he was born in January, 1792. In Henry’s History of the
Lehigh Valley, we find the following notice of his grandfather, David Deshler, and his great-grandfather, Adam Deshler:
“Tn looking over the names of the early residents of Allentown we find that of David Deshler, whose father, Adam Deshler, was among the first settlers at Egypt, Pa., in the upper part of North Whitehall township, where he arrived about the year 1730. In 1782, he owned four houses and lots in Allentown. Soon after he came here he purchased the mill property at the Little Lehigh Creek from Rothrock. During the Revolutionary war, he became one of the most prominent persons in Northampton county. He acted as commissary of supplies for the army, and with John Arndt, Esq., (also a commissary, and his colleague) in 1780, when the Treasury of the United States, as well as the State of Pennsylvania, had no funds, paid and advanced monies out of his own private means. This act in itself must endear his memory to every true American. In the petition of the 10th of October, 1763, his name appears as one of the defenders of the town at the time of the threatened massacre by the Indians, and we may infer that he, as the wealthiest inhabitant of the place, had the only gun fit for service. (We are informed by the report of Colonel Burd to Governor Hamilton that there were but three in the town, and two of these not fit for service.)” [Newspaper clipping furnished by Mrs. Florida Heitman, Fort Myers, Fla.]
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