FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: KIESEWETTER, E. (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

E. KIESEWETTER,

county auditor,  was born on the fifteenth day of May,  1845.  He is the
third child of Theodore E. and Joanna E. Kiesewetter,  natives of
Germany,  who emigrated to America in the year 1844.  They located
temporarily in Prairie Twp,  this county,  where they resided until
1849,  when they removed to Columbus.  Here the mother died,  August
31,  1850.  The father died May 11,  1874.

The education of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch,  was
acquired in the public schools of Columbus,  and was quite limited, 
from the fact that he was,  at an early period,  obliged to labor for
his support.  At the age of twelve years he engaged at the Fremont
house,  Columbus, Ohio,  where he remained two years.  He next attended
a term at the Columbus commercial college,  where he made book-keeping
his especial study,  and with what success his present position bears
ample testimony.  Immediately subsequent to the close of his studies at
the college he engaged with F.A. Sells,  and from this time until 1862
he was in constant employment.  And now occurs a period in his life
which the writer delights to chronicle.  It is ever pleasant to speak of
the brave defenders of our country's honor,  during those dark and
terrible days of Rebellion.

On September 30,  1862,  being then a lad of but seventeen,  he donned
the blue,  and as a private in company B,  of the forty-sixth regiment
of Ohio Volunteer Infantry,  went forth to die,  if need be,  for those
grand old colors,  the stars and stripes,  and narrowly did he escape
the alternative.  At the battle of Resaca,  Georgia,  on May 14,  1864, 
he was severely wounded in the left hip,  from the effects of which he
was confined to his bed seven long,  weary months.  The wound became
gangrenous and his life was despaired of,  but thanks to a hardy
constitution and the skillful treatment of the attending surgeon
(doubtless accidental),  he recovered,  and was discharged the service
at Camp Chase, Ohio,  March 31,  1865.  He remained at the hospital,  as
clerk,  until August 25th,  subsequent,  when he engaged with P. Hayden
& Son,  of Columbus,  as book-keeper.  This position was held
continuously until the fall of 1878,  when he assumed the arduous and
responsible duties of county auditor.  It is perhaps needless to state
that Mr. Kiesewetter is an efficient and faithful officer.  He is a
prominent member of the orders of Free and Accepted masons,  the
I.O.O.F. and the Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Kiesewetter was united in marriage on November 4,  1869,  to Miss
Francis,  daughter of Henry and Catharine Orthafer.  Two children have
blessed this union,  Frank L. and Henry W., the latter of whom is
deceased.
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