Biography of Isaac Hirschler, page 992. History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Isaac Hirschler, proprietor of Hirschler’s Opera House, Butler, Ind., was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 3, 1839, the eleventh of thirteen children 
of Simon A. Hirschler, but six of whom are living.  His father was a native 
of France, and served eleven years in the French army, nine years of the 
time was one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s body-guards.  At the battle of Waterloo 
he was wounded, and carried a ball in his leg fifty years.  It was extracted 
in 1863 by Prof. Gross, of Philadelphia Medical College, and is now in the 
museum of that institution.  He died in Philadelphia, Aug. 16, 1868. Two 
sons, Henry and Leopold, died of cholera in New Orleans in 1852.  Isaac 
Hirschler removed from his native city to De Kalb County, Ind., in 1873, and 
located in Butler, where he has since lived.  In 1883 he built his two-story 
brick opera house block, which yields him a good revenue.  Mr. Hirschler was 
married Sept. 15, 1867, to Dora Myers.  They have five children---Matilda, 
Dina, Amelia, Rosalee and Herman A.

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