J. T. KOENIG.  From a growing and successful law practice at St. Marys, Mr. Koenig was called to the duties and responsibilities of hate office of probate judge of Auglaize County by appointment  from Governor Harmon.  He was subsequently elected for the regular term, and has since handled with delicate precision and with absolute impartiality the many trusts and problems that come before the office of probate judge.
     Judge Koenig was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, June 10, 1880, and is one of the youngest probate judges in the state.  His parents were Jacob and Barbara (Hoppel) Koenig.  His mother was born near Dayton in 1844.  His father, who was born near Stuttgart, Germany, in 1843, was brought to this country by his parents at the age of nine.  He has spent his active career as a farmer, and since his marriage at St. Marys he and his wife have lived in that community, highly respected people.  They are members of the German Reform Church and in politics Jacob Koenig is a democrat.  There were four children:  John H., an attorney at St. Marys; Rose R., wife of G. F. Heap, a farmer north of St. Marys; Laura, wife of Willis Armstrong, a farmer at St. Marys; and Judge Koenig.
     Reared in the country, Judge Koenig early had a vision of broader achievements than would be possible in the restricted sphere of the agriculturist, and he directed his education accordingly.  He attended the St. Marys High School, from which he was graduated in 1899, and then pursued the study of law until 1901, when he pursued a course of study in the Ohio State University at Columbus.  Later he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar in 1903.  For 7½ years Judge Koenig worked industriously as a lawyer at St. Marys and was already known as one of the leading lawyers of the Auglaize County bar when Governor Harman appointed him in January, 1911, probate judge.  He was elected in 1912 and served six years and one month, his term of office having expired Feb. 9, 1917.  He then took up the practice of law in Wapakoneta, with the offices in the Brown Theater Building, specializing in probate law.
     Judge Koenig has been an active figure in democratic politics in his county.  He is past master of Mercer Lodge No. 121 Free and Accepted Masons, at St. Marys, and is also a Royal Arch Mason and attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite.  He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church.  In 1906 he married Irma Pepper who was born at Sidney, Ohio.  They are the parents of five children:  Rudolph, Robert, Harriet, Rosemary and Marshall.
Source:  History of Northwest Ohio  Vol. II - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York - 1917 - Page