Biography of Jacob Lehner, pages 738.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jacob Lehner, retired farmer, was born in Germany, March 10, 1807, and is 
the youngest of twelve children born to Jacob Lehner.  His mother died when 
he was eighteen months old, and his father when he was six years old.  He 
lived with his oldest brother till fourteen years of age, after which he 
worked for one man till he was twenty-three years old, at which time he was 
drafted into the army and for six years served as a soldier.  In the spring 
of 1836 he emigrated to America, landing in New York, where he worked for 
one month to get funds to carry him farther west, and eventually landed in 
Stark County, Ohio, where for eighteen months he worked for William Treesh.    
May 27, 1838, he was married to Mary A., daughter of his late employer.  
The September following he removed to Knox County, Ohio, where he bought 
fifty acres of land, on which he lived six years; then removed to Richland 
County, Ohio, where he bought land and lived for seven years.  In 1854 he 
came to De Kalb County, and bought eighty acres of timbered land which he 
cleared and improved, and has added to it till he now owns 140 acres of 
good land.  To him and his wife were born eleven children; eight are 
living---Susan, Christian, W. H., George, Washington, Michael, John and 
Rachel.  The deceased are William, Catherine and Nancy.  His wife died Oct 
24, 1877.  Both were exemplary members of the Lutheran church.

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