PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
February 2, 2000
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

CHRISTIAN BOETTLER, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Greene Township, Summit
Co., Ohio, March 14, 1836; son of Frederick and Margaretta (Zimmerman)
Boettler, natives of Germany, who settled in Greene Township, Summit Co.,
Ohio, in 1834, and who were the parents of nine children:  Jacob; Mary A.,
wife of F. Krumroy; Margaretta, wife of George Humbert; Diana, wife of Adam
Fulmer; Elizabeth, wife of Peter C. Frisch; Catherine, wife of Adam
Kroehley; Frederick, Christian and Daniel.  Frederick Boettler died in 1849,
his widow in May, 1883.  Our subject was reared in his native township,
where he resided until he was twenty-four years of age, when he located in
Greene Township, Summit Co., Ohio, for four years, after than in Brimfield,
Portage Co, Ohio, and there lived eight years.  He then resided in Canton,
Ohio, one year, and returned to Brimfield Township, this county, where he
resided until 1870, when he located in Franklin Township, and has here
resided ever since.  Mr. Boettle has always been engaged in farming and is
the owner of the well-known Alvin Olin farm, but resides in one of the
finest suburban residences of Kent.  He was married, December 14, 1860, to
Ann M., daughter of Peter and Catherine (Essick) Pontius, of Stark County,
Ohio, by whom he has one child - Charley A. Boettler.  Mr. and Mrs. Boettler
are members of the German Reformed Church.  In politics he is a Democrat.