[196-94] CHARLES DUNHAM DESHLER, b Mar. 1, 1818; d May 10, 1909; s George W. and Catharine L. (Dunham) Deshler [196-21]; m May 30, 1841, MARY M. HOLCOMBE, b Oct. 10, 1824; d Sept. 7, 1893; dau Theophilus Moore and Catharine Neilson (Farmer) Holcombe. Resided in New Brunswick, N. J. (1918.)
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Charles Dunham Deshler was born at Easton, Pa., March 1, 1819. He entered the drug business in New Brunswick, N. J., from which he retired in 1859 and engaged in literary work, first on the “‘Jersey City Standard,” and later on the ‘“Newark Advertiser.”’ He returned to New Brunswick in 1868, and beeame connected with Harper’s Magazine, having charge of the “‘Editor’s Round Table.” He wrote and compiled ‘‘Selections from Chaucer,” ‘‘Afternoons with the Poets,’’ and ‘‘A Glimpse of Seventy-Six.”
Mr. Deshler was an Associate Judge of Middlesex County, N. J., and the first school superintendent of that county and took a prominent part in organizing the county school system. He was postmaster of New Brunswick for one term, and was instrumental in founding the Middlesex Gas Company and the Middlesex Savings Bank. Mr. Deshler had a large and valuable library, principally historical in character.