BIO: Frederick W. LIESMANN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 348.
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  LIESMANN, FREDERICK W., editor of the Pennsylvanische Staats Zeitung 
und Dauphin County Journal, of Harrisburg, was born in the city of 
Coeln (Cologne) on the Rhine, Germany, October 28, 1845.  He received 
an education in the State schools, and attended college in his native 
city.  Having a desire to see America, he left his native land in 1864, 
and has since made his home in this country.  After a few years of hard 
labor he was chosen by the German people of this city to succeed his 
brother, Rev. Herman Liesmann, as teacher of the German school then 
held in the basement of St. Michael's German Lutheran church.  After 
instructing the German children for a number of years, he was elected 
by the board of control to take charge of a German and English branch 
school.  He accepted that position and was teacher of that school for 
fourteen years.
  He was married, May 24, 1868, to Miss Annie Mary Ripper, eldest 
daughter of the late J. G. Ripper, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
in this volume.  They have seven children:  George W., Anna C., Ella 
M., wife of Edward Shissler, Jennie McVeagh, William F. C., Mary H., 
and Clara W. T. 
  Besides publishing the leading German newspaper of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Liesmann is president of the Washington and the Teutonia Building and 
Saving Associations.  He is secretary of the Germania and the William 
Penn Building and Saving Associations.  He is also president of the 
German-American Union.  He has been a notary public for twenty-one 
years.  His political views are Democratic.  He attends St. Michael's 
German Lutheran church.
  George W. Liesmann, eldest son of Frederick W. Liesmann, fire 
insurance agent and county auditor, was born in Harrisburg December 8, 
1868.  He was educated in the Harrisburg public schools, graduating 
from the high school in 1888.  Since that time he has been connected 
with his father's business.  He is serving his third year as county 
auditor, two years of that time as secretary and one year as president.  
He is the youngest auditor ever elected.