Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Oltmanns, Louis 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Louis Oltmanns, editor of the Sterling Beobachter, was born in Jever, 
Oldenburg, Germany, April 30, 1836, his parents being Gerhard W. and Anna M. 
(Luemmen) Oltmanns, natives of Germany, who emigrated to this country in 1867 
and settled in Sterling. The subject of this sketch attended private school, 
and college a short time, left his parental home at the age of 15 years and 
engaged in mercantile business for 14 years; then, in 1865, he came to America 
and first was employed by R. B. Witmer at Sterling, until Feb. 1, 1883, when 
he assumed his present position. In his political views he is a Democrat. He 
is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Lutheran Church, to which latter 
body his wife also belongs. Mr. Oltmanns was married in 1868 to Miss Annie 
Lederer, a native of Germany, and they have had four children,—William, Anna, 
Louisa and Mary.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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