John Milton Haisley
This gentleman, who is engaged in the business of hotel-keeping in New Holland, Perry Township, Pickaway County, is a native of Wayne County, Ind., where he was born April 7, 1842. His parents bore the names of Ezekiel and Mary (Mendenhall) Haisley, the father a native of North Carolina and the mother a native of Virginia. Mr. Haisley, Sr., moved to Indiana about the beginning of the present century, and there spent the remainder of his days on a farm. He was of German descent.
Our subject's parents both died when he was but a small lad, leaving a family of nine children, of whom John Milton was next to the youngest. Three of his elder brothers were married and he went to live with one of them. He remained with this brother until reaching his twenty-second year, when he commenced for himself in trading and speculating in Richland and Cincinnati, Ohio. He traveled for a number of years, and in the year 1882 engaged in the manufacture of drain tile. In this business, Mr. Haisley continued for six consecutive years, when he sold out and engaged in the meat business at New Holland, giving this up in 1891. In the last year mentioned, the original of this biography engaged in the hotel business, in which he has been very successful and has made himself respected and well-liked by all his customers and friends.
The worthy gentleman of whom we write was united in the happy bonds of wedlock in October, 1872, to Miss Lorena Crosby. Mrs. Haisley is a daughter of Isaac and Clara Crosby, both natives of Ohio, in which State she herself was born. Our subject votes the Democratic ticket in politics, and socially he is one of the leading members of the Knights of Pythias.
From PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF FAYETTE, PICKAWAY AND MADISON COUNTIES, OHIO - Chapman Bros. [Chicago, 1892]