GOTTFRIED HEIMLICH was born in Germany January 27, 1825, and is the younger of the two children still living born to Gottlieb and Susanna Heimlich. The father was a farmer and died in his native Germany in 1829, a member of the Lutheran Church. Gottfried Heimlich attended school from the age of six until fourteen, and then worked on the home place until twenty-one; he then, for four years, served in the Prussian Army, taking part in the civil war in Baden and Southern Germany. In the early part of 1852, he came to the United States ; stopped at Milwaukee two months, then went to Wanatah, Ind., and thence came to Reynolds in June of the same year, and worked on the N.A.&S. R.R. two years, and two years on the P.C.&St.L. R.R. In January, 1865. he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out in the fall of same year. In 1856, he bought forty acres of wild land in Big Creek Township, which he has since increased to 225 well-improved acres, extending into Section 33, this township, where his residence now stands. In the fall of 1853, he married Rosa Langner, a native of Germany, who bore him two children (both now deceased), and died in 1855, a member of the Lutheran Church. In October, 1856, he married Polly Quada, a native of Posen, Germany, who bore him twelve children, and died in April, 1879, a member of the Lutheran Church, of which Mr. Heimlich is also a member. Of these twelve children, eight are yet living.

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