Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Hardin Co.

ADAM BEELER was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, of German parents, in 1835,
and is the son of Jacob Beeler and Catherine Lutz. Adam was reared and
educated in his native country, and came to the United States in 1853. He
first located in the city of New York, where he learned the butcher's
trade, to which he has since devoted his time. He remained in New York two
years and a half; thence went to Pennsylvania, whence, in 1859, he came to
Elizabethtown, where he has since remained in the successful prosecution of
his business. Mr. Beeler is the eldest of two sons born to his parents, the
younger being Jacob Beeler, now a farmer of Hardin County, who came from
Germany in 1881. Subject was married in Louisville, Ky., in 1862, to Miss
Lizzie Herdt, daughter of John and Anna (Kreher) Herdt. She was born in
Germany in 1839, and came with her parents to the United States in 1852.
They have but one child, a son, Clarence E. Beeler. Mr. Beeler is an
honorable business man, an esteemed citizen, and a consistent member of the
Masonic order.

Beeler Lutz Herdt Kreher
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Hardin-KY Wurtemburg-Germany Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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