History: BRANDSTETTER,Gottleib 1881 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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Rev. Gottleib Brandstetter
 History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford
                                    pg 307
                            Transcribed by Patti Graman
                                       
        Rev. Gottleib Brandstetter, pastor of the First German
Evangelical. Protestant church of Green
township, was born in Rhein Baiern, Bavaria, in 1830. He belongs to a
family of ministers. Gottlieb came
alone to America and took a course in theology, completing his studies in
1856, after which he 
engaged in the ministerial work at Peppertown, near Evansville, Indiana,
and other places. He came here
May 1, 1876, and has since had charge of the congregation and
Sabbath-school, acting as its
superintendent. He also gives instruction three days in each week to the
children of his congregation,
who are taking a course preparatory (page 308) to confirmation. The
church building, a fine brick
structure, was erected in the year 1871, in which, service and
Sabbath-school have been held ever since.
A graveyard of some four acres lies just back of the building. He was
married July 24, 1857, to 
Miss Catharine Wittkamper, of Cincinnati. This union has been blessed
with five children four sons and
one daughter. One son, Henry, born in 1859, died in 1880, and was a most
promising young man. He
possessed a natural genius for drawing, taking up the art and completing
the course almost without the 
aid of instruction. He, however, spent one year in Cooper Institute, New
York. He was engraver for
Stillman & Co., Front and Vine streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has left
some beautiful sketchings, of which
a "Scene on the Ohio," "Church Yard Scene," "Lick Run Church," show a
master hand in the work. He 
was also of great assistance to his father in his church work being a
musician and of great use in
Sabbath-school service. As the pride of the Bransdtetter home, he was
much missed in that circle. Rev.
Brandstetter is exercising a great influence for good among his people of
Cheviot, of which his people
are proud.



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