Fond Du Lac County WI Archives Obituaries.....Loehr, Peter February 9 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Michael Petrie petriemj@charter.net September 18, 2004, 12:34 pm Fond du Lac Daily Reporter, 2/9/1899 Peter Loehr Dead. Was Assemblyman From the Third District in 1889 - Heart Disease the Cause. Ex-Assemblyman Peter Loehr of Dotyville, died at 6 o'clock this morning of heart disease, at the age of 68 years. He is survived by a large family of grown up children. Ex-Assemblyman Loehr was born in Thalheim, Nassau, Germany, in 1831, where he received a common school education. In 1855 he came to Wisconsin and settled in Milwaukee. Three years later he came to Dotyville, in the town of Forest, where he has since resided. He was chairman of the town board from 1873 to 1888, when he was elected to the assembly from the third district, then comprising the towns of Ashford, Auburn, Calumet, Eden, Forest, Marshfield, Osceola and Taycheedah. His opponent at that time was Henry Stannard, a farmer residing in the same town. Milwaukee Journal, 2/9/1899 Peter Loehr Dead. Ex-Assemblyman from Fond du Lac Expires from Heart Disease. FOND DU LAC, Wis., Feb. 9- Peter Loehr, formerly assemblyman from the old Eastern district of Fond du Lac county, died today of heart disease at his home in the town of Forest. He was born in Germany sixty-eight years ago, came to America in 1855 and to this county in 1858. He was elected member of assembly on the Democratic ticket in 1888. He is survived by his widow and thirteen children. Weekly Germania 2/14/1899 Peter Loehr, früher Assembly Mitglied von dem alten östlichen Distrikt von Fond du Lac County, ist in seinem heim am Town Forest um Alter von 68 Jahren gestorben. Er wurde im Jahre 1888 aus dem demokratischen Ticket im die Assembly erwählt. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb