Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Einspahr, Katharina Frank 1852 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 24, 2006, 10:26 pm

Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

MRS. KATHARINA EINSPAHR.

    The women of a community are ofttimes the most enterprising factors in its
activity, and extend their influence far beyond their supposedly legitimate
sphere of work. There is no citizen of West Creek township more highly esteemed
for enterprise and worth in the business and industrial departments of Lake
county as well as for large qualities of heart and mind, than Mrs. Einspahr, who
resides on the fine estate in this township which she and her husband by
indefatigable labor and honest industry and wise management built up to
extensive and valuable proportions.

    This worthy representative of the ladies of West Creek township was born in
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, June 26, 1852, being the eldest of three children, all
daughters, and her two sisters being: Christine, wife of George Walker, a
retired resident of Chicago, and who has one child; and Mary, wife of James
Nott, engaged in real estate business in Chicago. The parents of these three
daughters were T. Baldanzer and Maggie (Albus) Frank. Her father was born in
Frankfort on the Rhine in 1823, and died in 1887. He was educated in the German
tongue, and followed farming throughout life. In 1857 he set sail from Germany
with his family, the port of departure being Bremen, and, on account of the
heavy storms which the sailing vessel encountered, they were three months and
nine days in reaching this side of the Atlantic. He at once brought the family
out to Blue Island, Illinois, where he began his active career as a farmer, poor
but honest, and at his death could say that he had always made his own way and
had enjoyed the high regard of his neighbors and friends. For a time he was a
watchman in the Union Depot at Chicago, and he died in that city. He was a
Republican in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church.
His wife was born in Nassau, Germany, in 1817, and died in 1895, having lived,
after her husband's death, with her daughter.

    September 20, 1871, Miss Katharina Frank was married to Mr. August Einspahr,
and the ten children born of this union are all living at the present writing,
as follows: Fred, who is a farmer of Odebolt, Iowa, and is married; William, a
prosperous farmer of West Creek township, and a married man; August, a farmer of
the same township; Maggie, wife of Otto Sutton, one of the prosperous men of
West Creek township whose histories appear in this volume; Martin, who resides
with his mother and conducts the farm; Emil, who is a farmer of the same
township; Emma, wife of Joseph Carl, who is in a greenhouse at Crown Point;
Walker, a farmer of West Creek township; Alfred, who makes his home with his
mother; and Katie, the youngest, who is in the sixth grade of school.

    Mr. Einspahr was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, May 2, 1843, and died
February 11, 1894. He was ten years old when he accompanied his parents to
America, their residence from the first being at Blue Island, Illinois. He was
thus trained and educated in both the German and English languages. His parents
were Frederick and Anna K. Einspahr, both deceased. Mr. Einspahr gave almost a
year of loyal service as a soldier to the Union during the Civil war, and then
received his honorable discharge. After his marriage he and his wife began life
on eighty acres of land in West Creek township, the property being incumbered
with twenty-two hundred dollars' debt. But they were industrious, shrewd
managers, and had early learned the lesson of making both ends meet, so that it
was not long before the indebtedness was cleared off and they were free to add
more to their estate.

    Mr. Einsphar was a stanch Republican, and all his sons follow his example.
He was a solid man, reliable and of unflinching integrity, and all men respected
him for his sterling worth. He and his wife were both members of the German
Methodist church. Since her husband's death Mrs. Einspahr has erected her
comfortable residence in the township, and has supervised the placing of the
many improvements and the tiling of the land. She is a lady who is held in the
highest esteem by all her acquaintances, and her hospitable home is a place of
rest and comfort for all who enter therein.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/bios/einspahr533gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 5.2 Kb