The Doller Family*

 

*The Doller Mansion will be open to the public in 2008. Watch for more information about this new museum and historical home.

 

   Jose de Rivera met young Valentine Doller (rhymes with solar) in Sandusky, Ohio, where Doller was working as a store clerk. De Rivera encouraged Doller to move to Put-in-Bay and open the first dry goods store, by offering him prime real estate on the waterfront.

  Doller married Catherine Haas in 1859 in Sandusky and they moved to the island. They moved into a frame building adjacent to the saw mill that they eventually enlarged into the Italianate Villa that still stands today.

  Valentine Doller opened his business on the corner of Bay View and Catawba Avenues with a store, saloon and restaurant.  His Doller Building was the site of the island telegraph office and the first post office with himself as postmaster.

  He also owned the waterfront dock (now the Boardwalk) which handled various ships, freight and he had a water taxi business to the other islands. Doller had vineyards and established the wine co-op. He was instrumental in starting the ice industry on Peach Point. He bought and donated the land for the United States Fish Hatchery, also on Peach Point.

  After the first Put-in-Bay House burned, Valentine Doller bought the land and built a second Put-in-Bay House. He was the Mayor of Put-in-Bay from 1880 to 1889

  His brother, Christopher Doller, moved to Put-in-Bay as the island shoemaker. His home and store were in the building now used as the Put-in-Bay Trading Co. retail shop.

  Another brother, John Doller, also moved to Put-in-Bay and opened a rooming house. This business still exists today as the Ashley’s Island House Bed and Breakfast.
 

      Descendants of George Valentin Doller

1 George Valentin Doller 1805 - 1887+Margaret Christina Doerzbach 1811 - 1854
      2 Valentine P. Doller 1834 - 1901+Catherine Haas 1840 - 1926
            3 Fannie R. Doller 1862 - 1957+Frank Joseph Miller 1862 - 1912
            3 Emma C. Doller 1865 - 1950
            3 Lillian Josephine Doller 1866 - 1956
            3 Charlotte C. Doller 1870 - 1962
            3 Daisy S. Doller 1873 - 1950
            3 Olga Beatrix Doller 1881 - 1974
       2 Margaret Angelina Doller 1837 - 1921+Philip Roszmann 1835 - 1908
            3 Adam J. Roszmann 1857 - 1918+Elenora Unknown 1866 -
            3 Elizabeth Roszmann 1859 - 1927+Frank Dittebenner 1855 -
            3 Louisa S. Roszmann 1861 - 1935+Marvin Hall 1855 -
            3 Margaret Ann Roszmann 1862 - 1941+Wherry Dickey 1857 -
            3 Catherine C. Roszmann 1865 - 1953+Albert Barth 1860 -
              *2nd Husband of Catherine C. Roszmann: +Albert E. Mitch
             3 George J. Roszmann 1868 - 1920
             3 John Henry Roszmann 1867 - 1940+Olga E. Hickman 1880 -
             3 John Philip Roszmann 1875 - 1959+Ida Hickman 1880 -
             3 Caroline Roszmann 1869 - 1872
             3 Karl Roszmann 1878 - 1953+Pauline Sammet 1885 -
             3 Frederick William Roszmann 1882 - 1970+Lillian Stansberry
             3 Wilhelmina Roszmann 1879 - 1967+John Nelson Patchet 1875 -
         2 Christopher Doller 1838 - 1923+Julia E. Eisenhard 1840 - 1925
              3 Edward W. Doller 1866 - 1948+Anna Barbara Diehl 1867 - 1947
              3 Charles Doller 1868 - 1950+Anna Marie Daerr 1875 - 1970
              3 Valentine Doller 1870 - 1870
              3 John Doller 1872 - 1872
              3 Anna Doller 1875 - 1970
          2 Louise Doller 1842 -+Mastermaier 1840 -
          2 Catharina Barbara Doller 1843 - 1933+Adolph G. Hagenmaier 1833 - 1905
               3 Adolph Gustave Hagenmaier 1874 - 1939+Odelia F. Courtad 1878 - 1963
          2 John Stephen Doller 1847 - 1921+Wilhelmina Schelb 1854 - 1938
               3 Franceska Wilhelmina Doller 1874 - 1960+George L. Leech 1871 - 1951
               3 Zezelia Fanshon Doller 1878 - 1937+William Künzler 1875 - 1964
               3 John Valentine Doller 1883 - 1960+Inez Gertrude Dodge 1880 - 1963
               3 Howard Victor William Doller 1897 - 1943+E. Mae Barber 1897 - 1966