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CHARLES THIEMANN. Everybody in this portion of the state knows Charles Thiemann, the present Commissioner of Randolph County, who is residing on his fine farm, located four miles southeast of Red Bud, where his birth occurred January 3, 1857. His parents, John Friedrich C. and Caroline (Nagel) Thiemann, were natives of Germany, who emigrated to the United States in 1842. They immediately located in Randolph County, where the father was variously employed for two years, and then purchased the farm which our subject now owns and occupies. While residing in his native land, he followed his trade of a potter, but after coming to America made farming his life work. He was born February 29, 1816, and died March 5, 1894. His wife, whose birth occurred October 27, 1817, died January 10, 1879. Grandfather John Thiemann was a soldier in the Franco-German War, and spent his entire life in his native land.

Our subject was the youngest of a family of five children and obtained a fair education in the district schools. He was very studious and eagerly took advantage of every opportunity to learn. He remained under the parental roof until his marriage, since which time his father has made his home with him. The date of his union with Miss Sophia M. H. Schrieber was May 29, 1879. Mrs. Thiemann was born June 24, 1858, and is the daughter of Charles and Magdalena (Huth) Schrieber, natives of Germany. Her parents came to the United States, and the mother departed this life in Randolph County in 1884.

To Mr. and Mrs. Thiemann have been born three children, Albert F. W., Helen A. W. and Emma S. The estate of our subject, which comprises two hundred and sixty-five acres, is so divided that one hundred and thirty acres are located near Red Bud, and the remainder two miles south of Sparta. He is well informed in his calling of agriculture, and by well directed and incessant labor he has thus accumulated his handsome property, and by conducting his affairs in a business-like manner reaps an excellent income.

Mr. Thiemann is a loyal and law-abiding citizen, interested in the welfare of his county, and in 1892 was elected by the Democratic party to the office of County Commissioner. He cast his first Presidential vote for Hancock, and since that time the Democrats have found in him a true supporter. In religion he is a strong Lutheran, and with his wife has been a faithful member of the church ever since he identified himself with it.