Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Rimbach, Jacob 1832 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JACOB RIMBACH.

    Jacob Rimbach, a prominent retired citizen of Hammond residing at 78 West
Sibley street, has been a resident in the vicinity of Hammond for a longer
period perhaps than any other present inhabitant of the city. In fact, when he
first came here, a half century ago, no town was here, and the name and the town
did not come into existence until nearly a quarter of a century later. He has
lived a life of industry, good business management and foresight, and high and
noble integrity, and is esteemed at the present not only because he is one of
the largest property owners of the city, but also because of his own personal
worth and character and for the part he has played in advancing the progress and
welfare of his adopted city. What he has accumulated in the way of worldly
wealth has been done so by diligence and sagacity in investment, and he deserves
the credit of having achieved his own success and of being a self-made man.

    Mr. Rimbach was born in the province of Eisenach, Germany, December 3, 1832,
being one of two sons and the only one now living born to Christopher and
Elizabeth (Hassar) Rimbach. His mother's father lived and died in Germany, and
his history is lost in consequence of his having died when his children were
small. Christopher Rimbach's parents were Jacob and Christina Rimbach, both of
whom died in Germany, and they had one son and two daughters. Christopher
Rimbach was a shoemaker by trade, and died in Germany about 1835. His wife
survived him till 1893, and was about seventy-two years old at the time of her
death. They were Lutherans. She was married a second time, her husband being
Frederick Schroeder, and their two daughters are now both deceased.

    Mr. Jacob Rimbach was reared in the land of his forefathers, receiving a
common school education. He had a farm training, and knew the value of honest
endeavor long before he came to this country. In 1854 he accompanied his mother
to America and settled on the present site of Hammond, before the town had been
started. He and his brother Frederick began work on the Michigan Central
Railroad, which road had been built through the county only three years before.
Two years later he was made foreman of a section, and continued in the employ of
that company for twenty-four years, filling the position of foreman for
twenty-two. After leaving the service of the railroad he started the M. M. Towle
lumber yard in Hammond, being its manager for two years. He owned ten acres of
land within the present confines of Hammond, and when he quit the lumber
business he devoted his time to flower gardening. He divided his land into town
lots and gradually sold them off, and also built a number of cottages on them.
He now owns, in addition to his good home at 78 West Sibley street, a block of
business buildings, including the Lion Store building, and also about fifteen
tenant cottages. He is now living retired in the main, being occupied only by
the oversight of his extensive property interests.

    In 1858 Mr. Rimbach married Miss Mary Hillman, and they have four daughters:
Emma, who married Morris Champaign, and has two daughters, May and Emma;
Henrietta, who married Fred Champaign, and has two children, Myrtle and Fred;
Francisca, who married Frank Hanson, and has two children, Jacob and May; and
Louise, who wedded Otto Marback, and has a daughter, Anna. Mrs. Rimbach's
parents, August and Christina (Feidel) Hillman, were natives of Germany and came
to America in December, 1854, settling at New Buffalo, Michigan. Her father
followed various occupations. He died in Chicago in January, 1898, at the age of
eighty-four years, followed in death a week later by his wife, at the age of
eighty-one. They were both Lutherans in religion. They were the parents of four
children : Mrs. Mary Rimbach; Caroline, deceased, who was the wife of Andrew
Burman; Sophia, the wife of Adolph Foin, of Los Angeles, California; and August,
of Hammond.

    Mr. and Mrs. Rimbach are members of the Lutheran church. At the time of the
Civil war he paid fourteen hundred dollars for a substitute in the army. He is a
stanch Republican in politics, and is a member of the county council.


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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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