Samuel B. Katterheinrich

SAMUEL B. KATTERHEINRICH, a member of the H. K. & K. Roofing Company of New Knoxville and one of the best known figures in the commercial and industrial life of that village, was born on a farm three miles east of New Knoxville, March 27, 1881, and is a son of H. H. and Sophia (Katterheinrich) Katterheinrich, both of whom also were born in Washington township and are still living on their home farm there, substantial representatives of two of the pioneer families of that part of this county. H. H. Katterheinrich, now living retired from the active labors of the farm, followed the vocation of wagon making for some time in the days of his young manhood and then became a farmer, making his home on an "eighty" he had bought in the northwest quarter of section 26 in Washington township, just three miles due east of New Knoxville, and has ever since resided there, meanwhile having substantially increased his landholdings, and has been living retired since 1919. To him and his wife were born eight children, four of whom are living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mary, and two brothers, William W. and Christian D. Katterheinrich, the latter of whom also is a member of the H. K. & K. Company, with which the former also formerly was connected. Reared on the home farm in Washington township, Samuel B. Katterheinrich received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained on the farm until after attaining his majority when he became engaged in railroading, not long afterward going to Pittsburg, where he took employment in the great plant of the Westinghouse Electric Company, where he remained until he returned to this county to take employment in the tinning and roofing establishment which his brother William and Mr. Hinze and Mr. Luecke had set up at New Knoxville. Not long afterward he bought his brother's interest in that concern and thus became a member of the H. L. K. Roofing Company, which was changed to the H. K. & K. Company when his brother, Christian D. Katterheinrich, bought the Luecke interest in the establishment, as is set out elsewhere, together with other details regarding the scope of operations of this progressive concern, which in addition to its general tinning and roofing business handles a general line of plumbing and builders supplies and has become a well established concern. Mr. Katterheinrich is a Freemason and is a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been the teacher of a Sunday school class in that church for the past six or seven years and is now the superintendent of the Sunday school, having served in that capacity since January 1, 1922. The Katterheinrich family is one of the old families of this county and repeated reference is made in this volume to one and another of the several branches of the family here.