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Charles Matthew Lehnus, known as Charley, was born September 1, 1861, in Freiburg, Baden, Germany, the son of a locksmith. Education for boys was compulsory ~ the Kaiser insisted that his soldiers know how to read and write! ~ and so was military service. We don't know what Charley did until he immigrated to America when he was 35 years of age, coming to relatives in Illinois. He worked for his uncle, then started farming himself, apparently on rented land, because there is no record of him owning land, at least around Kankakee.
It was probably at church that Charley met ...more Story
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