HUSTLER, SIMON E. - At his residence in this town, on Saturday
morning last, after an illness of about two months, Simon E. Hustler, aged about
53 years. Mr. Hustler was reared in Troy and was one of the most widely
known of its citizens. Besides holding several unimportant offices at
various times, he held the office of Sheriff four years by election and
discharged a large share of its duties twice that length of time as Deputy.
And without any disparagement to others, we are free to say that he was one of
the most efficient Sheriffs the county ever had. His funeral took place on
Sunday evening and was very largely attended by citizens, generally. Mr.
H. leaves but a small family--a wife and one daughter-- who have the sympathy of
a very large circle of friends in this sad bereavement.A friend has furnished the following addition at notice: Simon E.
Hustler, Esq., who died at his residence in this place this day a week ago, was
well known throughout the county, and in his younger days was well known
throughout the valley. In the Presidential campaign of 1840 he was widely
known over the western part of the State as a singer of Patriot to Whig songs,
many of the songs sung by him being of his own composition and marked by apt
points and capital bits. He read medicine a couple of years with the late
Dr. Asa Coleman, and law for a year or so with Judge R. S. Hart, but never
sought admission into either profession. A genial gentleman, of pleasant
manners and much general reading and information, he was a welcome companion.
With the British poets he was remarkably familiar, and was never at a loss for a
quotation in point. He was twice elected Sheriff of Miami county and
filled the office with marked ability and credit. A Whig in 1840, when
scarcely of age, he was a Republican when he died. He was born in Troy in
1819, and owed his success in life to his own unaided efforts as he did his
general information and his familiarity with history and poetry to his early
ambition to know something and be something