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

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           HENRY VAHLE, blacksmith and carriage-maker, Sebewaing, was born
        July 7, 1836, in Prussia, of which country his parents, FRANZ and
        ANNIE VAHLE, were natives and where they passed their entire lives.
        They died in 1860. Of their family of 16 children, five attained to
        adult age, — GETTA, ELIZABETH, FREDERICK, HENRY and CASPAR.
           At the age of 15 years MR. VAHLE was apprenticed to acquire a
        knowledge of the business in which he has since been engaged, and
        in which he served three years. He came to the United States in
        1856 and passed seven years working as a blacksmith in the State of
        New York. He came to Vassar, Mich., in 1863, and in February, 1866,
        he opened his present business relations at Sebewaing. He is
        prosecuting his affairs with success, has a fine carriage reposi-
        tory and also manages a trade in coal. In political affinity he is
        a Republican and has been one of the Councilmen of Sebewaing vil-
        lage since its incorporation.
           He was married May 20, 1858, at Lockport, N.Y., to CATHERINE
        STAEKER, and they have had five children - CHARLES, HENRY, HERMAN,
        EMMA and LOUISA.  HENRY died eight months old.  MRS VAHLE was born
        March 10, 1836, in Germany, and came to America in 1853.

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