Biography of Frank Teutsch, page 131.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Frank Teutsch owns a lot of good land in DeKalb County, his home farm of 
eighty acres being in Troy Township. He has another tract of seventy acres 
in the same township and 120 acres in Franklin Township. He has been a hard 
working citizen and farmer for over twenty years, and in that time has bought 
and paid for, largely from his labors, and the products of the soil 150 acres 
of the land he owns.  He keeps good livestock of different grades, and is an 
active member of the Arctic Cooperative Association.
   Mr. Teutsch was born in Franklin Township March 13, 1875, a son of Peter 
and Artemisa (Olds) Teutsch.  Peter Teutsch was born in Alsace, France, 
March 22, 1850, a son of Michael Teutsch, who brought his family to America 
in 1860, settling in Franklin Township of DeKalb County.  Peter Teutsch 
grew up on the farm, was educated partly in France and partly in DeKalb 
County, and he lived in Franklin Township until late in life, when he 
retired to Butler, where he and his wife died. He married Artemisia Olds 
January 5, 1873. Her father was an early settler of Franklin Township and 
she was born in DeKalb County. Peter Teutsch and wife were members of the 
United Brethren Church, and he was a republican in politics.  They had four 
children, one dying in infancy.  The three living are Frank; Foster, who 
married Elsie Campbell and lives in Franklin Township; and Leota, wife of 
Logan Woods of Fort Wayne.
   Frank Teutsch spent his early life on the home farm and acquired a 
common school education. On June 20, 1898, he married Saloma Mark, who was 
born in Franklin Township. Since his marriage Mr. Teutsch has occupied and 
operated his home farm of eighty acres.  He is a republican in politics. 
He and his wife have three children: Mildred, Loren and Roy.  Mildred 
graduated from the common schools in 1919.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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