Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Adelmann, George W 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

George W. Adelmann, engaged in the livery and undertaking business in 
Lockport, was born November 25, 1861. His father, Christopher Adelmann, a 
stone-mason and contractor, came from Germany to the United States in the 
early '30s, and for many years was a resident of Will county, dying at 
Lockport at the age of sixty-five. His son George was a pupil in the public 
schools at South Lockport, and was reared to farm life, assisting his father 
in the cultivation and improvement of the home farm until twenty-one years of 
age. He then started out in life on his own account, purchasing a tract of 
land of one hundred and sixty acres in Homer township, which he still owns and 
operates. He has brought it under a high state of cultivation and the place 
returns him a good income and golden harvests for the care and labor bestowed 
upon the fields. In 1889, however, Mr. Adelmann took up his abode in Lockport 
and purchased the livery business, which he is still conducting. In 1891 he 
built a fine two-story stone building for his livery which is a credit to 
Lockport and would grace many a town of larger size. In 1893 he further 
extended the scope of his labors by building an addition to the livery and in 
1902 by opening an undertaking department. He has prospered as the years have 
gone by and his success is well deserved. Mr. Adelmann was married June 25, 
1881, to Miss Catherine Schall, of Lockport, a daughter of Edward and Mary 
Schall, the former a boatman on the canal. They have four living children: 
Estella M., at home; Walter E., who is with his father in business; Marie K., 
a student in the high school; and Howard J., who is also in school. They 
likewise lost one son, William C., who died at the age of eleven years. Mr. 
Adelmann gives his political views to the democracy and for two terms has 
served as assistant supervisor. He belongs to St. Joseph's Catholic church at 
Lockport and has membership relations with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern 
Woodmen of America, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Improved Order of 
Heptasophs and the North American Union. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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