Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Koenig, Henry W 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

HENRY W. KOENIG, who has made his home in Joliet since 1883, is a well-known 
contractor and builder of this city, and has followed this occupation here 
since 1891. Being a man of quickness of comprehension, keen discrimination and 
intelligence, combined with a thorough practical knowledge of his occupation, 
he has met with constant success in his business, and has been given the 
contracts for scores of residences in Joliet and surrounding towns. Every 
contract is carried out faithfully and honestly, thus adding to his reputation 
and increasing the confidence in which he is held by the general public. 
Besides residences he has had charge of the erection of a number of public 
buildings, including the Lincoln schoolhouse. At times he has been called to 
take charge of work as much as two hundred miles distant from Joliet, although 
the bulk of his contracts have been in or near the city. He built the 
residence he owns and occupies at No. 209 Cassiday avenue. In Wackstadt, 
Erfurt, Prussia, Germany, the subject of this sketch was born November 13, 
1850, a son of Michael and Barbara (Hartleib) Koenig, natives of the same 
place. His father and grandfather spent their entire lives on the family 
homestead. He was next to the oldest of four children, of whom he alone lives 
in America. At fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to the carpenter's 
trade in Bischhagen, where he served for three years, and then worked in 
Hamburg for another three years. In 1870 he crossed the ocean from Hamburg to 
New York. After a short time in Chicago he went to Geneseo, Ill., thence to 
St. Louis, Mo., working at his trade in both places. In 1878 he was appointed 
foreman of buildings on the Rock Island Railroad, and this position he held 
until 1890, meantime having charge of the building of freight and passenger 
depots between Chicago and Rock Island and between Chicago and Peoria. His 
work was most acceptable to the company and proved financially remunerative to 
himself, but the constant change from town to town was less pleasant than his 
present business connections, which enable him to enjoy more fully the 
pleasures of domestic life. He is a member of the Joliet Builders' 
Association. In national politics Mr. Koenig gives his support to the 
Democratic party. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
America. His marriage was solemnized in Tamaqua, Pa., and united him with Miss 
Louisa Klumpp, who was born in that city, being the daughter of Adam Klumpp, a 
contractor and builder of breakers in that region. The children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Koenig are Callie C., Etta L., Otto A. and Bertha S. 

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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