Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [294-295] LAUDELIN TSCHIRHART, farmer and stockman on section 19, Sherman Township, is a native of Alsace. (At the date of his birth that province belonged to France, but the Franco-German war caused its cession to Germany.) He was born in May, 1834, near the River Rhine. His father, ANTHONY TSCHIRHART, was a native of Germany, a prominent agriculturist and a landholder in Alsace, where he died in 1872, at the age of 65 years. MARGARET TSCHIRHART, the mother, was a native of the same province, of mixed French and German ancestry. She died in her native province, in 1877, at the age of 58 years. Both parents descended from the better classes, and traced their line of progenitors from a very early period. MR. TSCHIRHART was reared to manhood under the care of his parents. He obtained an excellent education in the provincial schools where he was born, and at the age of 17 years he engaged in the business of wagon-making, which he followed three years. At the age of 20 years he set out for America. He located at first in Huron Co., Ont., where he engaged two years in lumbering. In the spring of 1857 he came to Michigan and settled in Sherman Township, where he was the first pioneer on the western part. He was preceded by four permanent settlers in the township. He obtained a claim to 60 acres of Government land by purchase, where he has since been occupied in clearing, improving and cultivating, and extending his landed interests, until he is a leading landholder and agricultur- ist of Huron County. He owns 580 acres, with 200 acres under the best improvements. He has three large stock and grain barns, and a residence exceeded in quality by only two others in the township. He makes a specialty of Durham cattle. MR. TSCHIRHART is a staunch Democrat, and has been active and prominent in the local affairs of the township in whose organiza- tion he was one of the prime movers. He is present Supervisor (1884), and held the position 10 years in succession. He has served four years as Treasurer, and has held most of the minor offices. He was married Jan. 1, 1856, in Stanley, Huron Co., Ont., to JOSEPHINE WEINGARDNER. Nine children have been born to them, one of whom is deceased. The names of those who survive are named JACOB, THERESA, JOSEPH, ANNA, AUGUST, JOSEPHINE, CAROLINE and ROSA. LOUISA died when she was seven years old. The parents of MRS. TSCHIRHART, JOSEPH and MAGDALENA (NELSER) WEINGARDNER, were natives of Alsace, of mixed French and German descent. Her father was a weaver by occupation, and remained with his family in his native province until 1855, when he came to Huron Co., Ont., accompanied by his children, his wife having died in France. He is still living in Ontario. The family are Roman Catholics. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================