People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — MARION L. SPITLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MARION L. SPITLER.

Marion L. - Spitler, son of George W. and Malinda Spitler, was born at West Lebanon, in Warren county. Indiana, March 12th. 1837. He graduated at Wabash college in the class of 1855; enlisted in Company A. 87 th Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was mustered in as second lieutenant of said company and was soon promoted to first lieutenant and was regarded as a brave and efficient officer. He was married June, 26th, 1859, to Mary E. Burnham of Biddeford, Maine, and has four -ehildren now living, Marion E., married toF. B. Learning, living at Goshen, Ind.; Charles G. Spitler, married to Mildred B. Powell, and now abstractor in Thompson & Bro.’s law office, Rensselaer, Ind.; Maude E. Spitler. unmarried, and Marion L. Spitler, now a student at Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind. He was elected clerk of the Jasper circuit court as a republican in 1866, which position he held for eight years, from May 1. 1868 to May 1, 1876, thus serving the constitutional limit of the office. He was a good, prompt, efficient officer, courteous and kind to all with whom he came in contact. On his retirement from the clerk’s office' in 1876 he entered the law office of Thompson & Bro. of Rensselaer, Ind , with whom he is now associated in business. His duties pertain especially to the real estate and abstract branch of the office. He is regarded as upright and honest in all his business relations and is a person of very general information as to titles and quality and value of lands in his county. He was a republican member of the Indiana Legislature in 1895 representing Jasper amd Newton counties. Although educated in the Presbyterian faith he is not at this time a member of any religious organization, and is liberal and tolerant in his religious belief. He has been interested in all public enterprizes for the growth and development of his home town and county.