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Permanent LinkRepresentative James Levi Giesler View All Years
JAMES L. GIESLER was born at Wilton, Iowa, March 17, 1857, and died in Muscatine August 2, 1931. Burial was at Wilton. His parents were Henry S. and Mary Wildasin Giesler. At the age of sixteen he began work in a private hank in Wilton. Later he helped his uncle, Samuel Wildasin, organize the Union Bank of Wilton, which later became the Union Savings Bank. In 1897 he was elected representative and served in the Twenty-seventh General Assembly. In 1899 he organized the German-American Savings Bank, later the American Savings Bank, at Muscatine, and removed to that city. He retained active connections with that bank until his death, at which time he was its vice president and a member of its board of directors. He was active in business affairs in Muscatine, was treasurer of the Western Grave Vault Company, president of the J. C. Thompson Installment Company, treasurer of the Midwestern Food Products Company, a trustee of the Municipal Water and Electric Department Board, and a director of the Iowa Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen.