The Man Behind the Curtain: “Doc” Mishler and His Legacy
Posted by Fred Lauver on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Man Behind the Curtain: “Doc” Mishler and His Legacy Isaac Charles Mishler (1862-1944) stepped off the train in Altoona, Blair County, on August 6, 1881, just before his nineteenth birthday, with a suitcase crammed full of ambition. Like thousands of men from across America and throughout Europe, Mishler was drawn to the booming city founded and sustained by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (PRR). Mishler spent the next year or two laboring as a...read more