DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: LOSCH, CHARLES F. (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887  - Page 381

        CHARLES F. LOSCH, deceased, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany,
November 24, 1833, a son of Charles and Julia Losch, who came to the United
States when Charles was three years of age and made their home in Darke
County, Ohio, and in 1841 moved to Jay County, Indiana, and settled in Pike
Township, where they both died. Of their eight children, but five are
living -Abraham and Joseph in Pike Township, and Elizabeth, Catherine and
John in Illinois. Charles F. Losch was reared on a farm and became one of
Pike Township's leading agriculturists. September 1, 1861, he enlisted in
Company F, Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry, and after serving faithfully nine
months was honorably discharged on account of sickness. November 4, 1863,
Mr. Losch was married to Miss Melinda E. Heister, who was born in Boundary,
Indiana, February 26, 1843, a daughter of Daniel Heister, a pioneer of Jay
County. The spring following their marriage they went to housekeeping on
the farm where the family still live. At that time they owned 120 acres,
eighty acres being a present to Mrs. Losch from her father. Thirty acres
had been cleared and a small house had been built, and from this beginning
they by industry made a good home, adding to their estate eighty acres, and
at the time of Mr. Losch's death 100 acres were under cultivation. Five
children are still living under the home roof -Daniel J., Mary E., John H.,
Charles E. and Louisa A. A daughter, Alice, died aged two years, and two
children died in infancy. Mr. Losch died May 30, 1879. His life was a
worthy and honorable one, and his name is worthy of mention with others who
were influential in making Jay County one of the best in the State. He was
consistent member of the German Reformed church, and in politics he was
identified with the Republican party.


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