The Descendants of Thomas Coatsworth and Mary Bainbridge, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham Co., England. A Family History, by Eva M. Coatsworth, Timbercreek Ltd, USA, 1990.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 4-5:
John Coatsworth Iler, Sheriff of the County of Essex, and one of its most highly regarded citizens, claims German ancestry. Jacob Iler, his grandfather, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in 1768, and settled in Canada while still a young man. He married Elizabeth Snider and they reared children as follows: Susan (who lived to the age of ninety-nine and one-half years), David, Solomon, Ann, Samuel, Mary, John, Jacob and Elizabeth.
Solomon Iler, son of Jacob and father of Sheriff Iler, was born in 1802, on Grosse Ile, and in 1806 came with his parents to the County of Essex, where later he married Hannah Coatsworth. They reared these children: Ann (deceased), John C., Elizabeth (deceased), Joseph (deceased), Esther (deceased), George (a farmer of County Essex),
Hannah, Solomon, Susan (deceased), Thomas, Leonard (a Baptist minister of County Kent), and Burrett (connected to the Inland Revenue service in Toronto).
John Coatsworth Iler was born in 1828, in Colchester Township, County Essex, where he grew to manhood, and where he passed many years as a farmer, still retaining his property in his native township. Mr. Iler is a man of unusual physical and mental vigor, and has been identified with both religious and political interests in his locality for a very long time. For over forty years he has been a local preacher of the Methodist Church, being even now active as such, and his voice has been heard in the discussion of religious topics in almost every district of Kent and Essex, and also many times in the City of Detroit. He is gifted with great eloquence, and has always been in demand as a speaker. His popularity and reliability have also made him a favorite and successful candidate for almost all the township offices, and in 1875 he came within thirty-five votes of being elected to a seat in Parliament. For ten years he served as township clerk, and nine years as reeve, and in 1879 he was elected warden of the County. Mr. Iler has always been conscientious in his political stand, and has taken a active part in the various campaigns, as an effective speaker for those principles which he has believed to be the best for the country. In 1883 Mr. Iler was made Sherriff of the County of Essex, and since that date he has devoted his attention closely to the duties of the office, with the same efficiency which has marked all of his public career.
In 1850 Mr. Iler was married to Adaline Buchanan, who was born in the County of Essex, a daughter of John Buchanan, one of the early settlers, and three daughters were born to this union, as follows: Margaret, who married Eli Wright, of the County of Essex, and has one daughter, Bertha Grace; Josephine, who married Atkinson Wigle, of Essex, has children - Roland, Adaline, John C., Allen and Lewis; Mina, who married Albert Rumball, deputy sheriff of the County of Essex, has children - Maude, Lulu, Margaret, Adaline, Kinney and Albert.
The Sheriff and his wife are leading members of the Methodist Church at Windsor, and they are numbered amoung the most substantial residents of the County of Essex. Mr. Iler claims to owe, very largely, any success or honor to which he as attained in life, to his beloved wife, who has always been a faithful and wise counsellor and companion. One feature of Mr. Iler's family life that might almost be called unique is the fact that although he has been married for over fifty-four years, and has raised three children and twelve grandchildren, there has not been a single death in the family during that long period.
Hannah
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John Coatsworth Iler 1828-1908
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