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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [402-405]

           HENRY GOEBEL, proprietor of the GOEBEL House, Sebewaing, was
        born April 30, 1837, in Prussia. His parents, CARL and CHRISTINE
        GOEBEL, were natives of the same country, and came thence in the
        summer of 1856 to Sebewaing Township. His father died there, in the
        fall of 1881; his mother survives, and is still a resident of the
        place where she was among the earliest settlers. Their children are
        three in number, — HENRY, CARL and WILLIAM.
           MR. GOEBEL was 19 years of age when he accompanied his parents
        to the United States. He attended the common schools of his native
        country during the period prescribed by law, and assisted his
        father in farm labor until their removal to this country. He was an
        inmate of the paternal home until he was 25 years of age, when he
        left home to become a farm laborer by the month, spending four
        years in that variety of occupation in Bay and Washtenaw Counties.
        In 1867 he rented the Forest City House at Bay City, associated
        with his brother-in-law. In 1869 he came to Sebewaing and assumed
        the management of the SEIT House, which he conducted three years.
        At the expiration of that time he opened a saloon and was engaged
        in its management three years. In 1872 he bought the site of the
        hotel he is now managing, on which he erected the Union House. The
        business of the hotel has been uniformly successful.  He is the
        proprietor of 80 acres of land in the township of Fair Haven, of
        which about 7 acres are improved. He belongs to the Democratic
        element in politics, and in the spring of 1884 was elected Presi-
        dent of the village of Sebewaing. He has been Highway Commissioner
        three years and Township Treasurer two years. He belongs to the
        Arbeiter Association, and is a member of the Knights of Maccabees.
           MR. GOEBEL was married Jan. 11, 1862, at Bay City, to MARY
        BAUER, and they have had nine children, WILLIAM, HENRY, MARY, OTTO
        and OSCAR are living, and ANNA M., JULIUS C., EMMA and GEORGE are
        deceased.  MRS. GOEBEL was born Jan. 27, 1840, in Wurtemburg, Ger-
        many.  Her parents, CHARLES and BARBARA BAUER, were natives also of
        Germany, and emigrated thence in 1858, to the United States, when
        MRS. GOEBEL was 18 years old.

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