Biography of Prof. Augustus Obendorf, pages 1006.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, 1885.

Prof. Augustus Obendorf, was born in Tuscarawas Township, Stark Co., Ohio, 
April 28, 1861, a son of Jacob and Mary (Shaub) Obendorf.  Jacob Obendorf 
was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Dec. 8, 1820.  He enlisted in the war of 
the Union in the Sixty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and was killed at the battle of 
Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1862.  He left a family of nine children---Mary A., 
Hiram, Martha, Ann E., Catherine, Alice S., Sarah S., Augustus and Jacob.  
Jan. 23, 1866, Mrs. Obendorf married Stephen Kutz, who was born Feb. 27, 
1810, and died Jan. 15, 1880.  To them were born three children, all 
deceased.  In the spring of 1881, Mrs. Kutz moved with her family to De 
Kalb County.  Augustus Obendorf received a good education in Ohio, and in 
the spring of 1880 came to De Kalb County, Ind., and the following fall was 
employed to take charge of the Centre School, Wilmington Township, and has 
taught four winters in the district.  In the winter of 1883-’84 he taught in 
Stafford Township.  He is a good disciplinarian, and is remarkably 
successful as an instructor, having a peculiar tact for imparting 
information to others.

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Arlene Goodwin
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