"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.
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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.



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