Vermilion County IL Archives Biographies.....ASPEL GATTERMAN LEVERENZ, Mary August 25, 1845 - April 29, 1926 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Herb Depke hdepke@bellsouth.net May 8, 2006, 7:16 pm Author: H. W. Beckwith Mary Louise Aspel Gatterman Leverenz Married [1] William C Gatterman; [2] John A Leverenz, Sr Her son, Henry Gatterman, was shot and killed 25 July 1903: Refer to Here Stands the Law, Donald G. Richter © 2001 Vermilion County Museum Society History of Vermilion County, Illinois; 1879, H. W. Beckwith, page 459-460: Mary Gattermann; Danville, proprietor of the garden on the Cov¬ington road, was born in Germany, on the 25th of August, 1845, and is the .wife of the late William Gattermann, who was born in Germany in 1835, came to America in 1857 and landed in New York. He was en¬gaged in the manufacture of soda-water. In 1867 he came west with his wife and located in Danville. Here they remained until 1871, when they went to New York, and afterward returned to Danville and purchased the present place, where he commenced to make improve¬ments. He first paid some three hundred dollars for the property; since then he made all the improvements, amounting to some five or six thousand dollars. He was a soldier in the late war, and did good service; he was also a soldier of the New York state militia, being a Member of the 3d New York Militia; he was also a member of the German Aid Society and a member of the Turn Verein Society. He died in 1878, and was buried on the 1st of January. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/vermilion/bios/aspelgat112gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb