Lake County, Indiana



                          John H. K. Vater

John H. K. Vater was born in germany October 27, 1824, and is the son
of Samuel and Susanna (Gastenberger) Vater. John attended school until
fourteen years old, and then worked in a distillery till about twenty-
two. In 1846, he came to America, stopped in Milwaukee a short time, 
thence moved to Chicago, where he worked in a lumber yard some four 
years, then kept a grocery for a long time. January 9, 1852, he married
Georgina Eggers, by whom he became the father of six boys and six girls-
John E. (deceased), Frederick (deceased), William, Bertha (deceased),
Augusta, Clara, Herman, Freddie, Georgina, Frederica, Charlie and 
Elizabeth. In about 1867, he sold his store in Chicago and came to 
Whiting Station, bought forty-five acres of land fronting the lake and
adjoining the property of his brother-in-law, Heinrich Eggers, and built
a fine residence near the shore. In 1876 he joined a number of others
in the building of the Berry Lake Ice House, of which he is now the 
Superintendent. He is a Republican and has twice been elected Justice
of the Peace.


Source- Counties of Porter and Lake, 1882.
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