Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Metterhausen, Louis 1840 - 
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Author: Portrait & Biographical Album, 1890

LOUIS METTERHAUSEN, publisher of Das Volksblatt, is conducting the only German 
paper in Will County. It is a journal largely patronized by the German 
residents of Will County, being well edited and devoted to local interests 
while expounding in a clear and decided manner the principles of the best 
interests of the people, independent of any political party. The subject of 
this notice was born January 21, 1840, in the town of Gilten, Hanover, and 
lived there until a young man of twenty-five years, acquiring a good 
education, and following the profession of a teacher. In October, 1865, he 
emigrated to the United States and first located in Naperville, Ill. 
Subsequently he was in Detroit, Mich., Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago and Beecher, 
Ill., prior to locating in Joliet where he settled in October, 1889, at which 
time he moved Das Volksblatt from Beecher where it had been established in 
May, 1882. At Beecher, he was a prominent man, holding the offices of 
Postmaster and School Treasurer and Trustee. When first locating at Beecher in 
1869, he established himself as a general merchant and conducted the store in 
connection with other business until his removal. Mr. Metterhausen was married 
May 6, 1871, to Miss Minnie Klusmeyer at Beecher, Ill., and they are now the 
parents of three bright children—Carl, born April 6, 1872; Charlotte, February 
9, 1876, and Emil, March 31, 1881. Mrs. Metterhausen is likewise a native of 
Germany and born in the Province of Hanover, November 6, 1853. She came to 
America with her parents when a young girl of fourteen years. They settled in 
Washington Township, this county; the father is deceased and the mother 
resides in Chicago. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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