C. G. Aichele

    C. G. Aichele, City Treasurer, is a native of Germany. He came to American in 1853, and settled in New York, where he remained for eight months, going from there to South Carolina, where he remained until 1859, when he went to Alabama, and thence to Georgia, locating at Rome. His occupation was in following his trade of gunsmith, at which he was engaged in Rome until he was forced to leave or join the rebel army. Removing to Adairsville, Georgia, he remained until May, 1864, when he was able to join the Northern troops, and came North. He was under strict surveillance during his entire residence in the South, and only escaped being conscripted into the rebel army by the most strenuous endeavors. Upon reaching Cincinnati, he worked there for a short time, removing to Hamilton, and was an employee of Gwinn & Campbell, in their gun works, for eight months, and then to Indianapolis, where for about one year  he was employed at his trade and as a machinist. In 1866, he came to Kendallville, where he started a gun shop, which he operated until 1873. In 1871, he became the representative of several leading fire insurance companies, to which he has devoted a large share of his attention since.

     He now represents the Phoenix, of Hartford and of Brooklyn, Continental, German Assurance, Germania and Niagara, of new York, the Liverpool, London and Globe, and the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. He is also agent for the Inman, Cunard, North German, Lloyd, America and Red Star line of ocean steamships. Mr. Aichele was elected City Treasurer of Kendallville in May, 1873, which office he still holds.

    He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and K. of H., the last order of which he is Treasurer.

    In 1856, in South Carolina, he was married to Miss Mary Schmeyhal. They have seven children -Mary, Augusta, Julia, Emil, Minnie, Annie and Albert.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard, 1882, page 297.