Edward L. Katterheinrich

EDWARD L. KATTERHEINRICH, a member of the county board of education and a well-known and substantial farmer and landowner of Washington township, proprietor of a well-improved farm in the Moulton neighborhood, on rural mail route No. 1 out of St. Marys, was born in the pleasant village of New Knoxville on August 2, 1882, and is a son of Henry and Anna (Schroer) Katterheinrich, both of whom were born in Washington township, both the Katterheinrichs and the Schroers having been among the early settlers of the New Knoxville community, as is set out elsewhere. Henry Katterheinrich, who is now living on his well-kept farm in Washington township, spent the early years of his manhood as a carpenter and then took up farming, a vocation he ever since has followed, now the owner of a fine farm of 120 acres in Washington township. To him and his wife were born eleven children, nine of whom are living, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Ida, Edna and Mahilda, and five brothers, Charles, Henry, Gus, Edwin and Rhinehardt Katterheinrich. Born at New Knoxville, where his father then was engaged in building operations, Edward L. Katterheinrich was five years of age when his parents moved from the village to the farm, and he grew to manhood on the farm, receiving his schooling in what now is known as the Chapel school. From the days of his boyhood he was well trained in the ways of the farm, and after his marriage at the age of twenty-one, he began farming on his own account, renting the place on which he now lives, and which he bought in 1907, and has ever since made his home there, he and his family being very comfortably situated. In 1920 Mr. Katterheinrich's farm plant was caught in the path of what has come to be known as the Moulton cyclone and all the buildings on the place were destroyed with the exception of the dwelling house, which was considerably damaged. This necessitated a reconstruction and remodeling process, which has given Mr. Katterheinrich a practically new and up-to-date farm plant and a house modern in its appointments, so that he now has one of the best improved places in the neighborhood. Mr. Katterheinrich has 119 acres, and in addition to his general farming gives considerable attention to the raising of livestock, feeding out about 100 hogs and as many as twenty cattle a year, and is doing well in his operations. He is a Republican and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, now serving as a member of the county board of education. It was on October 15, 1903, that Edward L. Katterheinrich was united in marriage to Anna Thielk, who also was born in Washington township, daughter of John and Julia (Stroh) Thielk, and to this union three children have been born, Emanuel J., Emma and Alice, the first named of whom is now a student in Capital University, at Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Katterheinrich are members of Zion's Lutheran church at St. Marys.