Montgomery County IL Archives Biographies......Ohlman, Capt M 
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Capt. M. OHLMAN, farmer, P. O. Ohlman, was born near Strasbourg, Germany; 
his father, Michael OHLMAN, was born in France; emigrated to America in 
1832; worked on the White House, Washington, where he earned sufficient 
money to carry him to St. Louis, Mo., where he removed in 1833; his wife,
Gertrude ZAHN, was born in France, and died in St. Louis in 1853, leaving 
six children, of whom our subject was the eldest. Our subject first worked 
on a Mississippi River flat-boat; at the age of seventeen, was promoted to 
the post of pilot, which position he held for ten years, when he became 
Captain and owner of the Star of the West, formerly known as the Polar 
Star; hi was also Master of the D. A. January. In 1861, he gave up steam
boating, and became a farmer, and has now a fine farm of 660 acres, 
together with other land and property, all of which he has accumulated 
by his own thrift and industry; he has realized as high as $12,000 on 
his stock at a single sale. In 1851, he married Miss BURBAND, born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of Benedick and Elizabeth (STRAUB) BURBANK; 
there have been born to them an interesting family of six children, all 
of whom have been given a good education. Capt. OHLMAN is a member of 
the Roman Catholic Church; in politics, he recognizes no party, but polls 
his vot for the man whom he thinks will best advance the interests of 
his country; in him all measures for the advancement of education, and 
all public enterprises, find a liberal supporter. His father, who was 
a wagon-maker by trade, died in California in 1851.

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