"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884" CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884. F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE MORGAN TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN. PAGE 911 Rev. John F. Lautenschlager, pioneer farmer and stock raiser, is the sixth of the eight children of George M. And Anna Maria (Effinger) Lautenschlager, natives of Wuerttemberg, Germany. George M. Lautenschlager emigrated to America in 1831, with a family of eight children, his wife having died in the Fatherland, and located in Pennsylvania. John F. Was born February 19, 1822, and passed his boyhood between labor on the farm and school going. Later, our subject received a higher form of education, and studied theology under Rudisill and Henkle, in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Indiana, and, graduating, was licensed as a minister in 1844, and has since been distinguished as a conscientious divine, his sermons being of the purest diction and effectiveness, and he having organized a number of churches in this and other counties. December 9, 1847, he married Leah Coble, a union which was productive in nine children:Luther, Leah, Melanethon, Anna, Maria, Jacob S., Sarah E., Brunetta E., and Jeremiah. Mrs. Lautenschlager died April 13, 1874, and April 25, 1876, Mr. Lautenschlager wedded his second wife, Mrs. Nancy Beatty, with an issue of one child:Matthias. Mr. Lautenschlager is a strong Democrat, and has served as Township Trustee and Notary Public. He came to this county in 1856, and redeemed from the wilds his farm of 190 acres, now cultivated, improved, stocked and planted. Mr. Lautenschlager is a generally esteemed citizen, and has officiated in St. John’s Church, in Clay County, near Staunton, since 1855. BIOGRAPHY SUBMITTER: Layne Powell