Herbert F. Geisler

Herbert Frederick Geisler (November 15, 1904 – July 13, 1983) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was the first person to use a Seeing Eye dog in the city of Chicago.

Biography

Geisler was born in Chicago to Otto Geisler, a German-American confectioner, and his wife, Caroline Friederike Marie Lange, who emigrated from Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a baby. An accident left Geisler completely blind at age 7. He nevertheless graduated at the top of his class at Marshall Metropolitan High School in 1923 and at his pre-law class at the University of Chicago. In 1929, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was class president. Unable to get a job, he worked pro bono as a public defender until he opened his own firm.