KOEHLER, FRANK

KOEHLER, STEMPEL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/5/2019 at 00:04:38

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

KOEHLER, FRANK, tailor; was born in Hanover, Germany, Dec. 26, 1824 ; he was brought up there, and learned the tailor trade ; he emigrated to America in 1846, and came to Iowa, and settled in Fort Madison in August, 1848, and began working at his trade ; there is no tailor here now who was here when he came. Mr. Koehler is a member of the Board of Education. He married Adelheid Stempel, from Prussia, in 1855; she died in 1869, leaving six children— Rosa, Alma, Ilda, Oscar, Hugo and Emil. His eldest daughter, Rosa, has prepared herself for teaching, and is now assistant teacher of German in the schools of Fort Madison.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879