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HERMANN F. WIEBUSCH is engaged in the hotel and retail liquor business at Chester, being proprietor of the Wiebusch Hotel. He is a native of this city, where his birth occurred November 11, 1857. He is the fourth child born to Claus and Mary (Kipp) Wiebusch, the former of whom is a native of Germany, and came to America when a young man of eighteen years. A brick mason by trade, he followed that occupation during his active years in Chester. He has now attained his seventy-second year, while his good wife has lived to see her seventieth birthday.

In his boyhood the subject of this sketch was a student in the Lutheran school at Chester, where he acquired a practical education. He became self-supporting at an early age, and for a time worked out on farms, and was also engaged as a teamster. When twenty-two years of age he began in business for himself by establishing a retail liquor store in Chester, of which he is still the proprietor, and at the same time is “mine host” of the Wiebusch Hotel. In 1881 he married Miss Wilhelmina, daughter of William and Sophia (Crumfeder) Sternberg, natives of Germany, who settled upon a farm near Blair, Randolph County. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Wiebusch was blessed by the birth of two children, one of whom died in infancy. George, who is still living, makes his home with his parents.

Mrs. Wiebusch is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject is a stanch Democrat in politics, and while his private affairs naturally receive the major part of his time and attention, yet he is interested in the welfare of the public, and is prominent in local matters. He has served as Alderman of the Third Ward for four years, and has been Director of the Fair Association for six years. Socially, he is a member of the American Legion of Honor, and has been Treasurer of that order for six years, and at the present time holds the office of Commander. In 1884 and 1886 he was Chairman of the Chester Democratic Club, and indeed his name has been inseparably associated with the political affairs of this county for a number of years.