BIO:  KOESTLIN, Rev. R., Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: KOESTLIN, Rev. R., Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Campbell Co.

REV. R. KOESTLIN was born at Metzingen, in Wurtemberg, Germany, May 22,
1845, and is a son of Dr. William and Louisa (Heerbrand) Koestlin.  He
absolved the College of Humaniora at Stuttgard and the university of
his kingdom, and served afterward, from 1866 to 1868, as lieutenant in
the Second Sharpshooter Battalion of Wurtemberg.  Our subject immigrated
to the United States in 1868 (February 20), and landed at New York, from
which place he went to Baltimore, where he was engaged first on a
newspaper, but subsequently entered the ministry in the German Protestant
Church.  He labored in Princeton, Ind., one year, and nine months at
Lawrenceburg, Ind.  He then removed to North Amherst, Ohio, where he
remained three years, going from there to Middletown, same State, where
he organized a new congregation and built a church.  He was then called
to St. John's German Protestant Church, at Newport, Ky., and remained
there five years.  In December, 1882, he moved to Alexandria, where he
still resides as minister of the St. Paul's German Protestant Church,
and correspondent of native and foreign newspapers.  He has been very
active in his labors as a minister in his allotted field.  In September,
1868, he married Anna Newman, and two children have been born to them:
William, who is seventeen years old, and Freddie, eleven years of age.

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