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JOHN F. KATTERJOHN, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, was born December 22, 1843, one of eight children born to William and Christina (Bierbaum) Katterjohn, who were natives of Prussia. The father came to the United States in about 1837, finding a home first in Virginia, when he was married. In 1842 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from there, two years later, to Dubois County, Ind., where he remained until 1872, when he removed to near Selvin, in this county, where he bought a farm upon which he yet resides. Until fifteen years of age our subject remained with his parents in Dubois County on the farm. He then went to Huntingburgh, and attended school winters and worked at the tanner’s trade summers. Three years later he came to Selvin, where he remained two years learning the miller’s trade. In 1863 he married Elsie Hale, and the winter of the same year he left home to fight his country’s cause as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Forty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At the end of one year he was honorably discharged, and returning home he purchased mill property at Newburgh, which he operated until the fall of 1867. He then returned to Selvin, and engaged in milling there until 1881, when he came to Boonville, purchased the Star Mills, which he has operated up to the present time with success. Mr. Katterjohn is a Republican in politics, a member of the G. A. R., and he and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are the parents of three children: Charles M., Quincy F. and Halla B.