Biography of Charles G. Kellner, page 995. History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Charles G. Kellner, section 25, Wilmington Township, was born in Prussia, 
Germany, March 5, 1842, a son of John Frederick Kellner. When he was 
fourteen years of age he began to work at the mason’s trade, serving an 
apprenticeship.  He worked at his trade in his native country till 1867, and 
then came to America and lived a year in Philadelphia, and in 1868 moved to 
Butler, Ind., where he worked a this trade two years.  In the fall of 1870 
he moved to his parents farm, but in the summer still works at his trade.  
In the summer of 1882 he built a fine brick residence, the main building, 
two stories high, 17x29 feet, and an L seventeen feet square.  Mr. Kellner 
was married in August, 1870, to Maggie Shoup, daughter of Peter Shoup, of 
Williams County, Ohio.   They have five children---Emma, Fred, Anna, Herman 
and Henry.  Mr. Kellner is a member of the Lutheran, and his wife of the 
United Brethren church. His farm contains 100 acres, forty acres in 
Wilmington and sixty acres in Stafford Township.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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