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 Heinrich Freidrick Mellenbruch was born in New Bremen, Ohio, in 1838. His family moved to Jackson County, Indiana, when he was about nine years old. As a young man he taught school. He fought and was wounded in the Civil War in 1862. He married Sophia Dorothea Maria (Mary) Meyer three years later. She was born in Hanover, Germany in 1838. After they started a family, they
moved to a farm Brown County, Kansas, in 1872. They raised nine children: Louis, Henry, Thomas, William, Anna, Sophia, Fred, John, and George. In the months
before the death of H.F. Mellenbruch, he composed a letter to his children summarizing his advice on quality living and suggesting his family hold an annual reunion. The reunion was first held in the fall of his death (1898) and has been held each year since. |
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Heinrich Freidrick Mellenbruch was born in New Bremen, Ohio, in 1838. His family moved to Jackson County, Indiana, when he was about nine years old. As a young man he taught school. He fought and was wounded in the Civil War in
1862. He married Sophia Dorothea Maria (Mary) Meyer three years later. She was born in Hanover, Germany in 1838. After they started a family, they
moved to a farm Brown County, Kansas, in 1872. They raised nine children: Louis, Henry, Thomas, William, Anna, Sophia, Fred, John, and George. In the months
before the death of H.F. Mellenbruch, he composed a letter to his children summarizing his advice on quality living and suggesting his family hold an annual reunion. The reunion was first held in the fall of his death (1898) and has been held each year since. 