FREDERICK LEMKE

Frederick Lemke, son of John and Henrietta (Schutz) Lemke, was born
in Prussia November 22, 1836. He was schooled until fourteen years
old, and then taught shoe-making. At twenty, he entered the Prussian
Army, served three years, and then for two years worked at his trade.
In 1861, he married Ottilge Wetterer, who has borne him five children-
Hannah and Augusta, in the old country, and Hermann, Amelia (deceased)
and Emma, in this country. Mr. Lemke came to Tolleston in 1865, when 
he was employed as a foreman for the Washington Ice Company, at Clarke
Station, where he and his family now reside. They are members of the
German Lutheran Church, at Tolleston, and in politics, Mr. Lemke is
a Republican.

Source- Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana; Historical and 
Biographical. Batney, Chicago, 1882.

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