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Source:
History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress and
Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time.
By Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917
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HENRY
DETJEN, who was born in Washington Township of Auglaize
County, Apr. 19, 1873, has compressed an immense amount of hard
work and sound business sense in the years following his boyhood
sense in the years following his boyhood. Starting out
with a district school education, he was a farm worker, for five
years helped to operate a threshing outfit, then he operated a
sawmill for about five years. His experience brought him
into direct relations with the grain business, and now for a
number of years he has been a successful merchant at Moulton,
Auglaize County, and a grain trader whose operations are widely
known over Auglaize County.
He has one of the principal general stores at
Wapakoneta, also an elevator there, and is president of the
Detjen Grain Company at New Knoxville. The possessor
of an independent business, he is still as hard working as ever,
and is one of the substantial citizens of his home county.
In matters of politics he is an independent republican.
His parents were Peter and Sophia (Wierville) Detjen.
They and the grandparents were all born in Germany and while
both the grandfathers died in their native land the paternal
grandmother came with some of her children to America.
Peter Detjen was born in 1843 and died in February, 1911.
He came to the United States at the age of twenty, worked for
daily wages at Cincinnati for a time, and afterwards came to
Auglaize County, where he married. In time he bought
eighty acres of timbered land and proceeded to clear it up and
make a home and farm. Before his death he became well
known in Washington Township, was a republican in politics and a
member of the German Lutheran Church. Of his three
children, two are now living.
Mr. Henry Detjen was married July 25, 1895, to
Louisa Fledderjohn, daughter of the late Henry
Fledderjohn. Her father was a very successful farmer
and sawmill man in Auglaize County, where he came at an early
day, Mr. and Mrs. Detjen, who are active members of
the Lutheran Church, have four children, Ferdinand, Emma,
Alvina and Leona, all of whom are still in the home
circle.
Source: History of Northwest Ohio Vol.
II - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New
York - 1917 - Page 723 |
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