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LOUIS LENKNER, retired, Brushton station, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1816. He learned rope-making, and when twenty-four years old came to Pittsburgh. Sometime thereafter his parents, George and Margaret (Hut) Lenkner, followed him to that city, where they died. Two years after his arrival Mr. Lenkner established a rope-factory in Pittsburgh, which he operated successfully for thirty years, but had to abandon it in 1872, owing to a stroke of paralysis which disabled his left hand. He took up his residence at Brushton, where he put up a house, before the Pennsylvania railroad was built, and has seen a thrifty village grow up around him. He is a member of the Lutheran Church at East Liberty politically a republican. Mr. Lenkner has been twice married. His first wife, nee Jeanette Obermarm, was the mother of six children, three of whom are living: George, living near Allegheny City; Sophie (Mrs. John Rabb), in Pittsburgh; and Josephine. The second wife, nee Katrina Vockel, is also the mother of six children: Annie (wife of Max Rasch), and Mina (Mrs. Charles Paul), who reside in the east end of Pittsburgh, and Charles, Louise, Herman and Katie, at home. Charles is established at Brushton in the grocery business, which he opened out Aug. 1, 1888.