Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Muenich, Gottlieb 1825 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

GOTTLIEB MUENICH.

    Gottlieb Muenich deserves to be numbered among the old settlers of the city
of Hammond, for he has resided here for twenty-five years, which time covers
almost the entire period of the city's growth and development to its present
thriving proportions. At the age of nearly eighty years, he is also one of the
patriarchs of the city, and his character and person are venerable and respected
in the eyes of all citizens of Hammond, who esteem him both for his length of
years and also for the useful part he has taken in the affairs of city, county,
state and nation since becoming a naturalized citizen upwards of fifty years ago.

    He was born in the province of Brandenburg, Germany, in 1825, and is now the
only surviving one of the four children, one son and three daughters, born to
Christian and Christiana (Hartneck) Muenich, the former of whom was a German
farmer and died in the fatherland about 1863, followed a short time after by his
wife. They were both Lutherans. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Muenich died in
Germany when close to sixty-eight years old, and the maternal grandfather was a
farmer and died in Germany.

    Gottlieb Muenich was reared in Germany and received a good education in the
common schools. He took up life's duties by learning the weaver's trade. He was
a soldier in the royal armies for five years, being a sergeant, and also for
several years was overseer and guard of a large estate. He was married before
leaving the old country, which important move of his life he made in 1857. For
the first year he lived in Chicago, and then went to Hessville, Indiana, where
he bought a small farm and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits for
twenty-one years. In 1879 he left the farm to take up his residence in Hammond,
which was then in its stages of beginning and progress toward a prosperous city.
He has lived here ever since. He first built a large frame house on South Hohman
street, adjoining his present residence, and after living there several years
sold it to his son Gustav. In 1897 he built his present substantial brick
residence at 216 South Hohman street.

    Mr. Muenich is a veteran of the Civil war in this country, having enlisted
in 1862 in Company I, Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, and served about a year,
after which he returned to his home at Hessville. Mr. and Mrs. Muenich are both
members of the Lutheran church, and in politics he has always adhered to
Republican principles and policies.

    August 8, 1853, Mr. Muenich was married to Miss Anna Natke, a daughter of
Christian and Maria (Wannock) Natke. Both her paternal and her maternal
grandfathers died so long ago that no knowledge of their history is obtainable,
but the name of the former's wife was Maria (Rockhill) Natke, and that of the
latter's Katharina Wannock. Mrs. Muenich's father was a farmer, and in 1857 he
emigrated with his wife and family from Germany to America, and after a short
residence in Chicago located at Hessville, where he remained till his death, in
1887, at the age of eighty-one. His wife died in 1877, aged seventy-four. They
had three children: Anna, the wife of Mr. Muenich; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph
Hess; and Martin Natke.

    Four sons and one daughter were born to Mr. and Mrs. Muenich: Carl Gustav is
a contractor in Hammond; he married Miss Maria Bellof, and they have one
daughter, Etta. Gustav Adolph Muenich died at the age of five and a half years.
Rudolph is a paperhanger: he married Alvina Zachholz, and their three children
are George, Ida Anna Alvina and Bertha. Maria married Henry Huehn, now deceased,
and they had five children, Emma, William, Henry, Myrtle and Arthur. Edward
Muenich follows the trade of carpenter; by his wife, Alice Benedict, he has five
children, Rebecca, Elmer, Lola, Roy and Arthur.


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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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