Biography of Herman Koehler - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 339

Herman Koehler, a well-known farmer, stock raiser and carpenter
of Buffalo Island, was born in Hanover, Germany, May 1, 1826. His father.
John Henry Koehler, was also a Hanoverian by birth, and stood high in the
estimation of those who knew him. Herman, like all German boys, received
a good common-school education, and also served a four-years'
apprenticeship at the carpenter's [p.339] trade. In 1848, thinking to
better his condition, he emigrated to the United States; and after
working at his trade in New Orleans for five years, he went to St. Louis
and to Iowa, where for some time he worked at carpentering and building,
and then went to Memphis, Tenn., where he resided working at his trade
for nineteen years. Here he formed the acquaintance of Miss Ann M. Meyer,
who became his wife July 9, 1854. This lady was a native of Germany, but
was reared in Cincinnati, Ohio. To this union have been born two
children: Adaline and John August. In 1877 Mr. Koehler moved to
Mississippi County, Ark., where he farmed and worked at his trade some
three years, and then moved to his present location on Buffalo Island,
which has since been his home. He at first purchased forty acres of
unimproved land, to which he has since added until he now owns 184 acres,
100 of it being under a good state of cultivation. He also owns valuable
property in Florida and California. Like most of his countrymen, Mr.
Koehler is frugal and industrious, and has made what he has by his own
exertions. He is unassuming in his manner, charitable and honest in his
thoughts and dealings with his fellow-men, and is one of Craighead
County's most substantial citizens. His wife and children are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.