William
Heisler
Born in Longswamp, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Son of George Heisler
and Anna Maria (Yost) Heisler
Brother of
Anna (Heisler) Dreibelbis and Washington Heisler
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 70
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Biography
William Heisler was born in 1829, and died on November 12, 1899. He was the son of George Heisler and Maria Yost. He passed away in 1899.
He was an apprentice compositor at the Minersville Journal in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, becoming the foreman and relocating to Denver, Colorado in 1861, where he was foreman of the Rocky County News. He returned to Pennsylvania, where he was employed by William F. Murphy Sons.
Sources
1870 U.S. Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, pop. sch. 85 (handwritten), dwell. 612, fam. 663 (listed as a printer).
1880 U.S. Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, pop. sch. 16 (handwritten), dwell. 187, fam. 158 (listed as a printer).
Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 (citing "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2010).
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 (citing Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Methodist Church Records. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Eastern Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Commission on Archives and History).
"William A. Heisler," Reading TImes (Reading Pennsylvania), November 21, 1899, p. 1.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91186686/william-a.-heisler
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