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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois
Illustrated
Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
Lakeside Building
1883
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CHARLES TAUBENECK, farmer, P. O.
Marshall, born Dec. 30, 1820, in Schkentitz, Prussia,
Germany. He is a son of John Frederick Taubeneck,
born July 7, 1797; he died in 1877, in this county, to which
he had come in 1855. He was married to Anna C. W.
Gephart, born Feb. 12, 1792, in Hanover, she died where
our subject was born; she was the mother of eight children.
Her father was in Paris when Louis XVI was beheaded; one of
her brothers was a minister and another was a Professor at
the University in Leipzig. The great-grandfather of
our subject was a Russian Nobleman, who married a citizen's
daughter while a student at the University of Goettigen, in
Germany, of which he afterward became a Professor. Our
subject came to the United States in 1850, he has seen most
of the eastern cities, and came to Clark County, mostly by
water he was married Aug. 15, 1850, to Bertha Nonnenbruch,
a miller by occupation; he died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. Taubeneck is the mother of three children now
living - Matilda, born Aug. 13, 1853, wife of F.
Bubeck, she has four children; Emil C., born Feb.
5, 1856, he married Mary Holtzer, mother of Carl
Victor; Victor E., born July 19, 1860, he married
Hettie Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Taubeneck are members
of the Lutheran Church. He owns a good farm of 100
acres; he has given almost 200 acres of land to his
children. Mr. Taubeneck is a strong Republican.
Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois
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Illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers,
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