Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Einsele, Sebastian 1838 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

SEBASTIAN EINSELE.

    Sebastian Einsele, who has done much by his progressive efforts for the
development and industrial welfare of Lake county, and who is a well known
resident of Hanover township, was born in Baden, Germany, March 16, 1838, being
the fourth of the children born to Michael and Barbara (Ferrold) Einsele. His
father was born November 25, 1805, and died in 1899, and was a wagon-maker by
trade. In 1847 he came with his family to America, starting from Havre, France,
in a sailing vessel, and it was forty-three days before they reached New York.
Thence he came to Lake county, where he purchased eighty acres of partially
improved land in Hanover township, and his first home there was a log cabin. He
was a prosperous man, and accumulated about two hundred and twenty acres of land
in Hanover township. Politically he was independent. He aided in the erection of
St. Martins Catholic church at Hanover Center. His good wife was also born in
the fatherland in 1805, and her death occurred in 1876.

    Mr. Einsele was a boy of nine years when he became a resident of this
county, and he has therefore passed most of his life in the county. He is a
self-educated man, having gained most of his knowledge by personal application.
He remained with his parents until twenty-eight years old, and when he married
and began life for himself he had only two teams, and he started to farm on
rented land. He continued as a renter for twenty-four years in one part of the
township, so that it is evident that he began at the bottom of the ladder and
advanced to his present prosperity by degrees and persistent efforts.

    November 16, 1866, he married Miss Katharine Drinen, and ten children were
born to them, nine of whom are living. Mary resides with her father. Tena is in
Chicago, but her home is still with her father. Joseph is at home, as also are
Michael, Lizzie, Sebastian, Anna, Jacob, Emil. Mrs. Einsele was born in Prussia
in 1848, and when four years old came to America.

    In 1899 Mr. Einsele began the erection of his excellent summer resort hotel
at Cedar Lake, and since that time he has given his chief attention to its
management. He has one of the most popular hotels and saloons in Cedar Lake, and
each summer this resort with its efficient service is thrown open to the public,
and he is a well known host to the many people who each year flock out to this
delightful locality. The hotel is about sixty rods from the landing and from the
Monon depot, so as to be most conveniently located for the reception of the
crowds who, especially on Sunday, throng from the city to this pleasure and
recreation spot. The Einsele Hotel is surrounded by a beautiful natural grove,
and with all these charms of situation and equipments its popularity each season
increases among the Chicago excursionists. And Mr. Einsele is of the jovial and
cordial nature which attracts people to him, and his business increases
accordingly. He has telephone connection with all the towns of Lake county and
with Chicago, and everything is at hand to make his guests comfortable and
pleased. His property there is worth about ten thousand dollars, and within a
few years the value of the trade and of his permanent investments will rapidly
increase, as Cedar Lake becomes known as it should among the vast numbers who
seek such retired spots for rest and vacation.

    Mr. Einsele is independent in political affairs, and supports whom he
regards as the best man for the office. He and his family are members of St.
Martins Catholic church at Hanover Center.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904

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