J.H. Lutterbeck

J. H. LUTTERBECK, a member of one of the pioneer families of Washington township and the proprietor of a well improved farm in that township, about two miles northeast of New Knoxville, was born in that township and has lived there all his life, a period of nearly seventy years, and has thus seen that region develop from its woodland state. Mr. Lutterbeck was born on a woodland farm just southwest of New Knoxville, in the very southwest corner of Washington township, on April 8, 1855, and is a son of William and Elizabeth Lutterbeck, natives of Germany, who had come here with their respective parents in the days of their youth and were here married. William Lutterbeck was a well-grown boy when he came here. That was during the time of the construction of the canal up through this part of the state, and he secured employment with the construction gang and thus helped to finish the canal. After his marriage he bought a woodland tract of fifty-four acres just southwest of the village of New Knoxville and proceeded to clear and improve the same, and later bought an adjoining "forty" there. On that place he made his home until 1872, when he bought a tract of a fraction more than 162 acres along the creek in the northwest quarter of section 22 of Washington township, a part of which place is now owned by the subject of this sketch, and on this latter place spent the remainder of his life, a progressive and successful farmer. He and his wife had three children who grew to maturity, the subject of this sketch and his brothers, Herman (deceased) and Louis Lutterbeck, of Cleveland. J. H. Lutterbeck grew up on the home farm, receiving his schooling in the schools of New Knoxville, and until his marriage continued farming in association with his father. After his marriage he rented a part of the home farm and began farming on his own account. Upon the death of his father not long afterward, he and his brothers divided the farm and he came into possession of the home acres, where he ever since has lived, and where he and his family are quite comfortably situated. Mr. Lutterbeck has a well-improved farm of ninety-one acres, and with the assistance of his sons is carrying on his operations there in successful fashion. He is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Reformed church at New Knoxville. J. H. Lutterbeck married Anna Katterheinrich, a member of the well-known pioneer, family of that name in Washington township, and to this union have been born eight children, Lena, Emma, Dora, William, Bertha, Jacob, Ferd and Alvina, all of whom are married save Dora and the two last named. Lena Lutterbeck married Louis Hulsmeyer and has three children, Orlando, Marie and Alice. Emma Lutterbeck married Ernest Hoge and has three children, Norman, Kermit and ????. William Lutterbeck married Lena Opperman and has three children, Vernon, Orin and Grace. Bertha Lutterbeck married Ernest Harlament, and Jacob Lutterbeck married Ella Luederke and has one child, a son, Myron. The Lutterbeck home is pleasantly situated on rural mail route No. 3 out of St. Marys. Mrs. Anna Lutterbeck was born in Washington township and is a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Niemeyer) Katterheinrich, who came here from Cincinnati at some time following their immigration from Germany, where they were married, and who became well-to-do farming people in Washington township. Of their ten children, four are still living, Anna Lutterbeck having a sister, Lena, and two brothers, Henry and Norman Katterheinrich.