Nelson Trusler

Birth Date

1823-11-11

Death Date

1880-01-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier. Fayette County, Indiana, native. Son of Samuel Trusler. Married to Salome Stanton Trusler. Father of Preston Trusler, Mary S. Trusler, Edna H. Trusler, Pinckey G. Trusler. Married to Elizabeth Trusler. Attorney in Fayette County, Indiana, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana from Fayette County from 1856 to 1860. Attorney in Fayette County in 1860. Served in the 84th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 5, 1862, to October 17, 1863. Secretary of State of the State of Indiana from 1864 to 1869.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Fayette County, Connersville, p. 194B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Fayette County, Connersville, p. 120.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 3, p. 167A
Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Indiana State Department of Health and Vital Records, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Certificate 1823.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. III (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglas, State Printer, 1866), 58.
"Dropped Dead," The Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN), February 4, 1880, p. 3.
George Hazzard, Hazzard's History of Henry County, Indiana, 1822-1906: Military Edition, vol. I (New Castle, IN: 1906), 469-70.

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