Biographical Sketch of George H. Kahmann, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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George H. Kahmann, secretary and treasurer of the Washington Clay
Manufacturing Company, is a native of St. Louis, Mo., born September
18, 1854, and is a son of C. Henry and Mary (Mense) Kahmann.  The
father was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1826, and when eighteen years
of age came to the United States and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where he became steward on a boat from that place to St. Louis, Mo.
At the end of three years he located in St. Louis, married and began
keeping hotel, but was afterward keeper of a restaurant.  In 1855 he
came to Washington and erected the Pacific Hotel, of which he was 
landlord for two years.  In 1857 he began pork packing and merchan-
dising on an extensive scale, but about 1870 he disposed of his 
merchandise, and from that time until his death he continued in the
pork packing business, meeting with excellent success.  He was a man
who was always in the front ranks for the upbuilding and advancement
of the town, and for years was the most influential and substantial
citizen of Washington.  He died November 11, 1884.  His wife was 
born on a sailing vessel coming to America in 1839; shie died in 
1872.  She was the mother of six children, who lived to be grown:
George H., J. William (editor of the "Observer"), Guy F. (secretary
and treasurer of the H. Tibbe & Son Manufacturing Company), Anna
(wife of Charles I. Wynne, music dealer in St. Louis), Cassie and
Joseph F.  George H. was educated in Washington and two years in Notre
Dame, South Bend, Ind.  In 1869 he became a clerk with J. D. Hibbler,
in a general store in Washington, but at the end of two years became
assistant cashier in the Washington Savings Bank.  In 1872 he went to
St. Louis and was engaged in a wholesale notion house, but in 1875 he
returned to Washington, and he and James I. Jones became partners in
a general store.  In 1878 Mr. Kahmann bought Mr. Jones' interest, and
his brother Guy became his partner, meanwhile taking an interest in 
a corncob pipe manufactory, with H. Tibbe & Son, where he remained
actively engaged in business until 1886, when a stock company was
formed, of which our subject is still a stockholder.  Since February,
1887, he has been secretary and treasurer of the Washington Clay Man-
ufacturing Company.  May 12, 1881, he married Miss Mary S. Hopkins,
daughter of H. S. Hopkins, bridge contractor, of St. Louis.  Mrs.
Kahmann was born in Jefferson City, Mo., in 1858 and by her marriage
became the mother of three children: Nathalie, Corabell (deceased)
and C. Henry.  Mr. Kahmann is a stock holder in Hopkins Bridge Comp-
any, St. Louis, is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members
of the Catholic Church.

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