BIOGRAPHIES
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE COUNTIES OF
HURON AND LORAIN, OHIO
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
and of Many of the Early Settled Families
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
J. H. BEERS & CO.
1894
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ADAM KOLBE,
a prominent farmer of Black River township, was born
near Hersfeld, Germany, Aug. 18, 1848.
He is a son of Henry W. and Elizabeth Kolbe, who
were the parents of nine children, named as follows:
Eliza (Mrs. Spiegelberg), Henrietta (Mrs.
Bechstein), Christina (Mrs. Smithkons), Adam
(subject of sketch), Henry, Catharine (Mrs.
Holstein), Mary (Mrs. Neiding), Emma (Mrs. Bechtel)
and William. In 1856 the family
came to the United States, first locating in the,
then, village of Lorain, Lorain Co., Ohio,
afterward, in 1867, settling on a farm in Black
River township, same county, where the parents
followed agricultural pursuits till advanced age
compelled them to retire from active life. The
father died Oct. 8, 1893; the mother, now in her
seventy-seventh year, is living with her son Adam
on the farm in Black River township. She is a
member of the Evangelical Association, as was also
her husband.
Adam Kolbe received a liberal education at the
public schools, and was reared to agricultural
pursuits on his father's farm. In 1873 he
married Miss Caroline Faber, who died in May,
1891, leaving one child, a son named Lawrence A.
Mr. Kolbe has remained on a farm ever since, and
in the town of Lorain, in the same county, he
engaged in the fishery business for about four
years, as a member of the firm of Kolbe Bros.
& Co., in which he was financially successful.
In 1889 he withdrew from the firm, and has since
been living on the farm in Black River township.
In religious faith Mr. Kolbe is a member of
the Evangelical Church; socially he is a member of
Lorain Lodge, Knights of the Maccabees; politically
he is a Republican.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio -
Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894
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WILLIAM
KRESS. The beautiful Fatherland, the
country of magnificent mountains, rivers, forests
and plains, has given to the United States a vast
population of honest, toiling, frugal citizens, now
the loyal sons and daughters of the greatest
Republic on earth. In the state of Ohio there
are many thousands, in Lorain county not a few, and
prominent among them is numbered the subject of this
sketch.
William Kress was born July 17, 1826, in Hessia,
Germany, where he received a liberal education.
In 1855 he set sail for the shores of America, and
after arrival at the port of destination proceeded
westward at once to Ohio, and to Lorain county,
where he commenced farm life in Black River
township. In 1875 he bought his present farm
of ninety-eight acres, one of the finest to be found
in Amherst township, and he enjoys the distinguished
reputation of being one of the wealthiest and most
successful German agriculturists in his section of
the county.
Mr. Kress has been twice married: First time, in
1855, to Miss Catherine Voegler, who was also
a native of Germany. She died in 1889, and
Mr. Kress subsequently married his present wife.
He has no children, but he has a step-daughter.
His political sympathies are with the Democratic
party.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the
counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_
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