Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....KOCH , JOHN HERMAN 
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Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published.

MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Seventeenth District. The towns of Lake and Oak Creek and the
cities of Cudahy and South Milwaukee.

JOHN HERMAN KOCH (Rep.) was born in Germany July 24, 1864,
coming to the United States with his parents in 1870, first
settling near Mayville, Wisconsin, and three years later on a
farm in the town of Hartland, Shawano county, Wisconsin. After
attending various schools, he completed his education in 1889,
when he graduated from the Lutheran School Seminary in
Milwaukee. Ordained as a minister, he took charge of a church
in the town of Paris, Kenosha county. In the year 1892 he was
called by the Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin as a missionary and
as such organized congregations in Waukegan, Illinois, South
Milwaukee and Cudahy, Wisconsin. South Milwaukee soon became
the only field of his labor. In 1909 he accepted a call as
superintendent of the Lutheran Children's Home Finding Society
of Wisconsin. Ill health made it necessary for him to retire
from active pastoral work and since 1916 has made his home in
the town of Lake, one block outside the Milwaukee limits. He
never sought a public office, but upon request became a
candidate for the assembly, being elected in 1922, receiving
1,770 votes to 1,529 for Elmer A. Krahan (Soc.) and 388 for R.
J. Hopkins (Ind.).

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Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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