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sailed from Bremen Harbor in the sailing ship "Alice." The voyage to New York occupied thirty-four days, with 110 events specially im- portant to break the monotony of the trip. Two days after landing they started for Chicago, and arrived October 12. At that time the country was passing through the worst business depres- sion it has ever experienced and work was scarce and wages low.
Mr. Dieckmann was fortunate and soon found employment, but received only fifty cents per day for his services. His good wife was ambitious to succeed and assist in making a home in the New World and did washing for other families for the small sum of twenty-five cents per day. Beginning in this small way they laid the foun- dation for their future success. The next year after their arrival Mr. Dieckmann rented sonte land on Diversey Avenue from William B. Ogden and engaged in market gardening. In this move
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he was very successful and continued to prosper until a short time after the fire of 1871. During that terrible conflagration Mr. Dieckmann opened his house and with his wife entertained a few hundred sufferers from the fire.
Having purchased some lots on the corner of Ashland Avenue and Roscoe Street, he removed to that location and cultivated them, at the same time continuing the cultivation of the leased land. For two years he engaged in the milk business, but abandoned it for the more profit- able and congenial work of market gardening. In 1889 he retired from active labor with a hand- some competence, and has since enjoyed a well- earned rest. Since he became a citizen Mr. Dieck- mann has supported the Republican party, but he has never aspired to political preferment.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dieckmann six children were born, but two died in infancy and four daughters (the two oldest having been born in Germany
and the others in Chicago) are still living, name- ly: Anna, wife of Peter Wolff, of No. 39 Evans- ton Avenue; Mary, now Mrs. Leonard Schirmer, of No. 68 West Madison Street; Lena, wife of Frank Albrecht, of No. 624 Otto Street, and Katharine, who became the wife of Thomas Schultz, and resides in Denver, Colorado.
After a long and happy married life, Mrs. Dieckmann was called to her reward August 3, 1889, and her remains were laid to rest in Grace- land Cemetery. Mr. Dieckmann has long been a consistent member of Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, and for many years has held the office of secretary. In all religious and be- nevolent works he takes special interest. By his many acts of kindness and genuine uprightness of character he has endeared himself to many friends and is held in high regard by the com- munity in which he has so long been a resi- dent.
CARL LINDE.
ARL LINDE, who lives retired, has been many years a resident of Chicago. He was born in Hanover, Germany, October 13, 1823, son of Christian Linde, who was a member of an old German family, and served in the army in the Napoleonic war. He died in Germany in 1846 and his wife survived him until 1865, when she passed away. They had six children, three of whom are deceased. Christian and Carl live in Chicago, and Johannah is now Mrs. Kroia, of Germany.
Carl Linde was liberally educated in the public school of his native town. At the age of four- teen years he began to learn the tinner's trade and after serving an apprenticeship of four years
continued to work at it until he came to America. In May, 1854, he sailed from Bremen Harbor in the sailing ship "Jacob Groeser." After a pleasant sail of some weeks he was landed in New York. As his brother, Christian, had located in Chicago, Carl Linde continued his journey westward to that city. He brouglit fourteen hundred dollars to America with him, but lost four hundred of it in a bank that failed.
His first work in this country was at his trade at a location on Lake Street. He worked twenty- five years for wages and all that period was fore- man over a number of other men with the ex- ception of one year. As lie was a skilled man and reliable he received a good salary at all
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times. He has lived retired more than twenty years. His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, since which time he has supported the representatives of the Re- publican party at all times and places and op- portunities, in national affairs, while in local matters he votes for the best man for the office, regardless of party.
In 1860 Mr. Linde was married to Miss Katharine Kuhirt, a native of Germany. Mrs.
Linde came to Chicago in 1857. She became the mother of two children, both of whom died young. Mr. Linde is a member of the Evangel- ical Lutheran Church, at the corner of Garfield Avenue and Mohawk Street. He is a good, moral citizen, of the true and tried type, ready at all times to do all in his power for the benefit of humanity in general. His ideas are the highest and he is a gentleman in every sense of the word.
REV. PAUL BRAUNS.
2 EV. PAUL BRAUNS, who is pastor of Epiplianias Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Roscoe Boulevard and Claremont Avenue, was born January 27, 1864, in Han- over, Germany, and is a son of Rev. Otto and Johanna (Kleinschmidt) Brauns, natives of that place. The father is a clergyman of the Lutheran Church and still has a charge and is actively employed in ministerial work.
Paul Brauns was liberally educated in various institutions of learning in his native land, and was graduated from the gymnasium of Goet- tingen in 1881. He then sailed from Bremen in the steamship "Rhine," of the German Lloyd Company, bound for America, landing in New York City after a twelve days' voyage. Going direct to St. Louis, Missouri, he entered the Concordia Seminary, and took a theological course, graduating in 1884. On leaving college he went back to Germany and after visiting his parents a short time studied nearly a year at Leipsic. Having received a call from St. Mattaeus Evangelical Lutheran Church of Chi- cago, as assistant minister, he came here in 1885 and entered upon his duties. After ably and
satisfactorily filling that position five years, he again visited the Fatherland, spending nearly a year in Europe.
In the summer of 1891 he returned to Chicago and organized the Concordia Evangelical Lutli- eran Church, and in 1893 built the present large church edifice on the corner of Belmont and North Washtenaw Avenues, remaining in charge and laboring faithfully in the Master's cause until 1895. In May of that year he severed his connection with the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states and joined the Evangelical Synod of North America, and organized his present congregation and parochial school. So well has he succeeded that the church member- ship consists of about two hundred families and seventy-five pupils attend the parish school, and nearly five hundred the Sabbath-school.
Mr. Brauns is very popular with his con- gregation. He is a gentleman of pleasing per- sonality, a ripe scholar, logical reasoner and a fluent and forcible speaker, possessing oratorical powers of a high order. His influence is ever exerted on the side of right, and every movement for the moral or intellectual advancement of the
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GEORGE MACAULEY.
community finds in him a stanch supporter. He keeps himself informed on public questions pertaining to City, State and Nation and, being independent, supports the man best qualified for official position.
September 15, 1886, he married Miss Else, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Ruhland. She was born in Buffalo, New York, and educated in Germany. They have two children, Paul and Walter, and have lost two by death.
GEORGE MACAULEY.
G EORGE MACAULEY, an old-time and popular resident of the city of Chicago, is the eldest son of John Macauley, who came to New York City from Ireland in 1847, and of whom extended mention is made in this volume, in connection with the biography of his son, John Macauley.
The subject of this sketch was born January 23, 1825, in Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland, and attended school there until he was thirteen years of age. He was then put to work in'a saw pit, where he continued one year. After the arrival of the family in New York he was employed nine years in that city as a carpenter. He then came to Chicago and spent the first year in this city in the service of Uriah Foot, in build- ing the Richmond House. He was next foreman for Horatio Lombard, on the construction of the Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Carpenter and West Washington Streets. Since that time he has engaged in building operations on his own account, and is still actively engaged in business as a contractor.
His first contract was for the construction of a residence for Sylvester Lynn, at the corner of West Randolph and Carpenter Streets. He sub- sequently erected the Lincoln School, on Larrabee Street near Fullerton Avenue, and the Vedder Street School. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he is still very active in the prosecution of business.
In 1860 Mr. Macauley was made a Mason, in Kilwinnig Lodge No. 311, and became a charter member of Lincoln Park Lodge No. 611, which was instituted October 5, 1869. In 1873 he was exalted to the Supreme Degree of Royal Arch Masonry in Wylie M. Egan Chapter No. 126, which he left to enter Lincoln Park Chapter No. 177 in 1893. He is also a member of Chi- cago Council No. 4, of Royal and Select Masters. He built the first hall occupied by Lincoln Park Lodge, at Lincoln Avenue and Center Street, and was Tyler of this lodge from 1876 to 1879, inclusive. Since 1891 he has occupied the same position in Chicago Council, and in Lincoln Park Chapter since 1893. He is a member of Dr. Rusk's Independent Militant Church, which meets at No. 40 Randolph Street.
In 1862 Mr. Macauley visited a Masonic lodge of North American Indians, which met in the woods near the Mississippi River, nearly opposite La Crosse, Wisconsin. They were working under a charter from the Grand Lodge of Canada. This visit was made in winter, when the river was covered with ice, not strong enough, how- ever, to bear the weight ofa man. Two friendly Indians ferried him across from the Wisconsin shore, one sitting in the bow of the canoe to break a way through the ice, and the other propelling the boat with a long pole. Landing among the hostile aborigines, he was introduced by his escort as a brother Mason, and was immediately sur-
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rounded by the young warriors, who, at a signal from their chief, the Master of their lodge, carried him to camp on their shoulders. He was then given a greeting of welcome by most of the tribe, and soon all who were Masons proceeded to a neighboring valley. A double line of sentries was posted on the surrounding hilltops and a lodge was opened in due and ancient form in the valley below. The Master spoke his native tongue except when addressing the Senior Warden, whose place was at this time filled by Mr. Macauley. After closing the lodge they re- turned to camp, where a feast of venison and a hilarious time followed. Mr. Macauley was again carried on the shoulders of the young Indians to the bank of the river, and ferried across to his white friends on the Wisconsin side.
July 4, 1850, Mr. Macauley was married, in New York City, to Miss Charlotte Eakin, a
daughter of Charles Eakin, who had then been deceased about four years. Mr. and Mrs. Mac- auley are the parents of seven children, namely : Elizabeth, Charles, John, Jane, Margaret, Annie and Charlotte. The third and fifth are now de- ceased. The eldest married Albert Frieze, of Chicago, and is the mother of two daughters and three sons. The second married Mary Schultz, now deceased, and resides in Chicago. The fourth became the wife of Fred Whiting, and had one daughter, Mamie, who died in her twelfth year. The youngest married Fred Rinn, and has a son and daughter.
Mr. Macauley occupies a handsome residence, erected by himself, at No. 195 Lincoln Avenue. He enjoys a very wide acquaintance, is noted for his hospitality and liberality and is highly re- spected and esteemed by all who are privi- leged to know him.
FRANK B. STORMS.
RANK BROWN STORMS. Among the early citizens of the great city of Chicago was the family of Storms. The members of the family all became prominent citizens, and those still living to bear the name are a credit to the ancient family. Frank Brown Storms was born February 26, 1875, in Chicago, and has re- sided in the same vicinity his entire life. For further mention of his ancestors see biographical sketch of John E. Storms.
Frank B. Storms attended school on Fifty- fourth Street until he reached the age of fifteen years. From the time he was eight years old until he was sixteen years of age he delivered papers, daily. He then secured employment in the cutting department of Spraguc, Warner &
Company. Subsequent to the time he left the above-mentioned employ, he entered the livery business at No. 5326 Monroe Avenue, dealing in horses, and continued at this location one year. Peter Craenenbroack was his partner during this time. He was later located one year at No. 5419 Kimbark Avenue, and is now employed by Ar- mour & Company at the stock yards.
Mr. Storms was married October 1, 1897, to Miss Emma Bischoff, a native of Freeport, Illi- nois. He was in the service of William Beale, in the office of the corporation counsel for a short time. He is one of the highly honored citizens of the vicinity in which he resides, and has proven himself ever loyal to the right and in upholding all that is for the uplifting of the people.
JACOB LENGACHER.
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CAPT. JACOB LENGACHER.
CAPT. JACOB LENGACHER.
C APT. JACOB LENGACHER, who has been engaged in fire insurance in Chicago ever since the year 1865, is an honored pioneer of this city, well known for his shrewd intellectual endowments, integrity of moral character, suavity of manner and painstaking care in the conduct of his business. A common- wealth made up of such men as he would be a "State" indeed.
Captain Lengacher is a native of that ambitious and prosperous little republic, Switzerland, born in Diemtiten, canton of Bern, June 26, 1833. His parents, David and Magdalena (Knute) Lengacher, were also natives of that canton, and members of very old and honored Swiss families. The captain's mother passed to the invisible world at the comparatively early age of forty- seven years; but his father reached the venerable age of eighty-five years. They had eight chil- dren, namely: David, who was clerk of the circuit court in his native place for many years and is now deceased; Johann, also deceased; Jacob, of this sketch, who is next in order of age; Samuel, who still resides in Switzerland; Christian; Gottfred; Magdalena, who is now Mrs. Karlen; and Rudolph, who is a prominent citizen in his native canton, being now sheriff of his district.
Capt. Jacob Lengacher, the only member of his father's family who emigrated from his native land, received a common-school education and after the close of his school days was occupied as a coachman, for a time driving the mail coach between Bern and Kirchberg. Conforming to the laws and usages of his country, he served his time in the national militia.
Influenced by a friend who was coming to the United States, he decided to cast his lot in the New World, the land of opportunity, and accord- ingly, in April, 1857, launched from Havre on a sailing ship, and after a voyage of forty-two days was landed at New York. In June he arrived in Chicago, and here was employed as a day laborer for about two years; next he was engaged in a brewery at La Porte, Indiana, until August 24, 1861, when he demonstrated his patriotism and love for his newly adopted country by enlisting for the term of the war in support of the regular government.
Joining Company I of the Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, a German regiment commanded by Colonel Willich, he was in the Army of the Cumberland and participated in all the engagements in which that regiment took part. May 26, 1864, in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, he was very painfully injured in one of his lower limbs just below the knee, which wound laid him up in the hospital for two months. Recovering, he rejoined his company, at Atlanta, Georgia, and served until January 28, 1865, when, after the close of the war, he resigned, at Chatta- nooga. He was so brave and faithful that he was promoted from the ranks as a private through the various positions in line to that of captain.
After leaving the army he returned to La Porte, Indiana, where he was married. Coming again to Chicago, he was employed for a time by George Schneider, who was then collector of customs. In the fall of that year (1865) he engaged in fire insurance, in the employ of the Garden City Fire Insurance Company, which in-
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stitution was wiped out in the great conflagration of 1871. His own residence also, at No. 366 Sedgwick Street, was entirely consumed in the same fire. The following year he erected another building, this being the first cottage built after the fire, and he resided at that number for eight- een years, when he sold the property and located at his present home, No. 277 Fremont Street. He has continued in the fire insurance business until the present time, representing a number of the best American and English companies and enjoying that success which follows industry and good judgment.
On becoming a citizen of the United States the captain espoused the cause of the Republican party and in 1860 voted for Abraham Lincoln for president of the United States, and ever since then, in state and national elections, he has uniformly supported that party. In 1871 he was elected alderman of the Sixteenth Ward, which section of the city is now embraced within the Twenty-second Ward, and he was re-elected in 1873 and again in 1875. During all the six years of his service in the city legislature he served his constituents satisfactorily. He has been a delegate to many district and state Republican conventions, also attended others, and has always been influential in the interests of his party.
In 1866 Captain Lengacher became a member of Robert Blum Lodge No. 58, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was one of the charter members of Lincoln Park Lodge No. 437, on its organization in 1873, and passed through the various chairs, and was its repre- sentative at the Grand Lodge for many years. Fraternally he has been a member of Mithra Lodge No. 410, Free and Accepted Masons, ever since 1867, and is a member of U. S. Grant Post No. 28, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Sharpshooters' Association. In 1890 he visited the land of his nativity, spending four months among the scenes of his childhood and among friends and relatives there.
March 5, 1865, is the date of the captain's marriage to Miss Margaret Haffer, a native of Indiana and of German parentage, her parents being Kasper and Margaret (Kesselmann) Haffer. Captain and Mrs. Lengacher have three sons, viz .: William, Robert and Oscar F. The last- named is associated with his father in business, the firm being Lengacher & Son. All the members of the family are highly respected by everyone who is acquainted with them. Socially the captain is an exceedingly pleasant man, with whom it is a great satisfaction to hold con- versation.
JOHN TELLING.
OHN TELLING, one of the successful mer- chants of Chicago, was born January 6, 1844, in Kidderminster, England. His father, Henry Telling, was a carpenter, who resided all his life at Kidderminster. Elizabeth Aliban, wife of the last-named, was left an orphan at an early age and was reared by and made her home with her brother, John Aliban.
John Telling was placed in the care of private
tutors until he was twelve years old, when he went into the office of Brinton & Son, large car- pet manufacturers of Kidderminster. At the age of fourteen years he came with his parents to America and located at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here lie was assistant bookkeeper at the foundry office of Turton & Sercombe two years. At six- teen years of age he entered the employ of At- kins, Steele & White, wholesale shoe dealers of
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the same city, and here laid the foundation of his long and remarkably successful business career. After three years in this house he engaged as traveling salesman with Page & Crosby, dealers in the same goods.
He was at once successful, and moved with that firm to Chicago in 1868. Here the house began business under the title of Page, Lyman & Company, and went out of business about 1870. Mr. Telling then engaged with Greensfelder, Rosenthal & Company, with whom he continued seventeen years, being a partner in the business during the last three years of that period.
His next connection was with Guthman, Car- penter & Telling, in which he continued as junior partner until the time of his death-which occurred November 16, 1895-a period of ten years. At the time of his demise he was the oldest commercial traveler on the road, and was still able to excel all his competitors in sales in his line of goods, facts of which he was justly proud.
Mr. Telling was very popular with his asso- ciates, was a most genial and companionable man, as well as a faithful and affectionate hus- band and tender parent. He joined the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows at the age of twenty-one years, becoming a member of Excel- sior Lodge of Milwaukee. At twenty-three he was made a Mason by St. John's Lodge of the same city, and subsequently affiliated with Me- dinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Chicago. He was a charter member of the Traveling Men's Insurance Association, organized in 1871, and a member of the North Shore Club, of Lake View. From earliest childhood he was reared in the Episcopal Church, and continued to be a most devout member of that body until a few months before his death. He then became interested in Christian Science, and associated lıimself with the propagation of that faith, giving up his church ties entirely. He was always an en- thusiastic Republican and an active political worker, especially during the presidential cam- paign of 1876.
July 31, 1866, Mr. Telling was married in All Saints' Church, at Milwaukee, to Miss Annie
Just, eldest daughter of Capt. William A. Just and Ellen Bromley. Captain Just was a son of William and Anna Just, of Mellin, Prussia, where they lived and died. Their son was but ten years old when the father passed away. His wife survived him but two years, and thus the youthful William was early left to his own re- sources. Ellen Bromley was a daughter of Thomas and Eleanor (Berry) Bromley, of Liver- pool, England, the former a steward in a gentle- man's family in Liverpool.
Capt. William A. Just followed the sea until 1845, making his home at Liverpool in the meall- time, and was married there in January, 1843, to Miss Bromley, in St. Peter's Church of that city. He came to America in 1845 and settled in Mil- waukee, and immediately became a navigator on the Great Lakes, where he commanded vessels until the time of his death, being then owner of the schooner "Wayne." He died of cholera October 10, 1854, leaving a widow and five chil- dren. He was a remarkable man, and was wide- ly mourned in Milwaukee, where his family oc- cupied a prominent social position.
Mrs. Telling was born in Milwaukee June II, 1846. She attended the Convent of Notre Dame, of that city, and finished her education at the private school of Professor Roache, from which she graduated at the remarkably early age of four- teen years. She is a woman of rare intelligence and discrimination, and was the appreciated com- panion of her husband through the happy years of their wedded life. Five of their seven children are now living. Eleanor Aliban, the eldest, is the wife of Mark L. Simpson, a son of E. B. Simpson, of Milwaukee, their wedding having occurred January 16, 1889. Daisy Everton, the second, died September 30, 1895. She was the idol of her family, and her demise, in the flower of her youth, followed in a few weeks by the death of her father, was a severe and trying shock to the devoted wife and mother and the other members of the family. Marion Emily, the sixtlı child, died in infancy. The others are: John Edward, Henry Irving, Grace Elsie and Bessie Irma.
The funeral of Mr. Telling was held at St.
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James' Church, in Milwaukee, and he was buried in Forest Home Cemetery of that city, with Ma- sonic honors. He was a thoroughly self-made man, and the example of his perseverance, in-
dustry and integrity is commended to the youth of the land as worthy of their emulation and certain to bring prosperity, friends and a peaceful life.
PHILIP APFEL.
HILIP APFEL is an honored pioneer of Chicago who has resided in the city for more than half a century. He has witnessed its changes and marvelous growth from a population of about twelve thousand to the second city in size and importance on the continent. He was born in Sulz, Alsace, then a part of France, Au- gust 19, 1830. His parents were Henry and Eva (Streng) Apfel, both natives of Alsace. The father belonged to an old French family and was a nailsmith by trade. In 1842 he immigrated to the United States, leaving his family in tlie old world until he could see the country before decid- ing to bring them and locate permanently in America. After arriving at New York he soon found employment at his trade and was so well pleased with the outlook that the following year he sent for his family.
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