Albert Pohl

    Albert Pohl, resident piano tuner and salesman with William Lieve & Bro., Aurora, is a native of Prussia, born in the Province of Saxony, September 17, 1849, where he received a collegiate course. His parents, Charles F. and Dorothea (Traffehn) Pohl, were natives of Prussia, the former was born in 1801, and the latter in 1809; the father died in Frankfort on the Main, in July, 1869, and the mother died in the city of Berlin, in December, 1870.

    Albert came to America, July 18, 1870, and located in New York, where he remained one year, and in 1871, he came to Aurora, where he was married, April 16, 1874, to Miss Kate S. Siemantel. She was born in Wisconsin, October 28, 1853. Her parents, George and Catharine (Lochner) Siemantel, were born in  Bavaria, the father in Obernzenn, March 17, 1826, and the mother November 2, 1829. Her grandparents, John and Catharine (Stahl) Siemantel, were born in Bavaria, the former in 1782, and the latter in 1792; grandfather died in 1847, grandmother in 1870. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Pohl have been born five children: Oscar H., Anna, Charles, Kate and Albert.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.