Gottlieb Hohulin – Coming to America
On July 15th, 1859 Gottlieb Hohulin arrived at the port of New York on the ship William Tell. Also on the ship were his future wife, Augustina Wenger, her mother and father.
Article from History Book on Gottlieb Hohulin
This script was taken from the PORTRAIT and BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM of Woodford County, Illinois. (Date 1889)
Gottlieb Hohulin, Montgomery Township, besides having been for about 26 years a minister of the Apostolic Christian Church, is also a teacher of the German language, and otherwise carries on a farm of 120 acres on sections 5 and 6. This is well-improved, and is located on the road to Eureka, and has been the home of it’s present proprietor for nearly eighteen years.
Mr. Hohulin has been a resident of this county since 1859, and made his first purchase of land in Montgomery Township. He was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden Germany, not many miles from the city of Freiburg, March 30, 1834, and is of pure German stock, being the son of Christian Hohulin, who died when Gottlieb was about seventeen years old at the age of fifty-one. He spent his entire life in farming pursuits. The name of the mother was Anna Marie Loscher. She likewise spent her entire life on native soil, dying when comparatively a young woman, at the age of forty-three years.
The subject of this sketch learned linen weaving under the instruction of his father, who followed this calling in connection with farming, and for eight years after his father’s death employed himself on the loom. He then determined to emigrate to America, and repairing to the city of Bremen set sail, reaching New York City 32 days thereafter. Thence he proceeded to Illinois, where he secured employment until the outbreak of the Civil War, and then returned to his trade, weaving homespun and jeans, afterward manufactured coverlets considerably. At the same time he carried on farming. He had received a good education in his youth, being industrious and intelligent, was fairly well prospered in his labors.
Mr. Hohulin was married in Tazewell County, to Miss Augusta Wenger, a native of his own province in Germany, born May 10, 1832. She lived in her native country until twenty-seven years of age, and then came to America with her parents, then settling in this county, and here father Conrad Wenger, for a time followed his trade of a shoemaker. He spent his last days in Fairbury, Illinois dying when about seventy-seven years old. He was a good member in standing of the Apostolic Christian Church. The mother is still living, making her home with her daughter in McLean County, Illinois, and has arrived at the advanced age of eighty-four years. She united with the Apostolic Christian Church many years ago.
The seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hohulin were named respectively, Julia, Hanna, Joseph, John, Samuel, Timotheus, and Elizabeth. They are bright and intelligent group, and are all living at home with their parents.
Marriage information
Gottlieb and Augusta were united in marriage April 2, 1850, at Dillon, Illinois, by Michael Reuter (L.F.) The Bride signed here name Augustine on the marriage license, also we find it in other places as Augustina.