BIOS: Edwin BUHL, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, PA; v.3; Bedford County by E.
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; Lewis Pub. Co.,
NY/Chicago 1906; ppg. 272/3

Edwin BUHL.

Edwin Buhl, a member of the firm of Buhl & Gatesman, distillers, of
Meyersdale, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, is a native of Hohenzollern,
Germany, born November 18, 1847, the son of John and Josephine Mary Buhl. 
John Buhl was born in Germany in 1812.  He was twice married, first to
Josephine M. Schmidt, who bore him children as follows: Edwin, of whom
later; William, born 1853, came to America in 1867, and is a barber at
Pittsburg; Pauline, born 1855, came to America in 1867, and married Anthony
Lutz, a brewer of Allegheny.  After the death of his first wife, which
event occurred in 1862, John Buhl married Amelia Wentz, and by her were
born: Joseph, 1874, came to America in 1892, and lives in Pittsburg;
Julius, born 1866, came to this country in 1878, and also resides in
Pittsburg, and a sister in Germany. 
Edwin Buhl emigrated from his native land in 1865, settling in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania.  He was employed in the hardware business in Pittsburg for
five years, and in 1870 settled in Clarion county, where for twenty years
he was in the hardware business.  In 1885 he entered the distilling
business in Clarion.  In December, 1901, he removed to Meyersdale, and
there bought out the business of H. H. Stahl, the proprietor of the old
Karn distillery, and forming a partnership with Frank William Gatesman,
immediately engaged in the conduct of same, under the firm name of Buhl &
Gatesman.  He still continues in this business, which has reached a high
state of success and prosperity.  The distillery has increased to double
its former capacity an new bondhouses and stills have been built.  A new
mill for chopping is now under construction.  The firm manufactures nothing
but the very purest rye.  Mr. Buhl is the partner of Mr. J. W. Selker in
the conduct of a cigar factory at Clarion.  He is a stockholder in the
Meyersdale Sheet Steel Company, and a director in the Gold Standard
National Bank, of Marion, Clarion county, The Clarion Water Works and the
Clarion Gas Company.  He is a Republican in politics, and during his
residence in Clarion served the borough as councilman and treasurer.  In
church relations he affiliates with the Roman Catholic faith. 
May 2, 1876, Mr. Buhl was united in marriage to Mary Anna Guth, a
daughter of Leopole Guth, of Clarion.