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- Taken from Ancestory.com
Paul Ernest Lehmann by daughter Gene Louise
Written by Gene Louise Lehmann (Daughter)
Paul was born in Hustisford, Wisconsin a little German Village in Dodge Co., Wisconsin. Most of the people spoke German, all though they were born here. His parents Paul and Emily both were hard to understand when they spoke English.
Paul was baptized at Bethany Congregational Lutheran Church in Hustisford by Pastor Koehler. John Lehmann, Carl Radloff and Auguste were his sponsors.
In 1901 he was confirmed into the Lutheran religion.
in 1905-1905 he attended Northwestern University in Watertown, Wisconsin. It was to study for the ministry. He was not interested in it. His parents wanted him to be a minister. One evening a friend of his got in trouble at the university and it would have meant he would be expelled. This friend wanted to be a Minster, Paul not wanting to be a minister took the blame and was expelled instead. The friend later was Rev. Koehler who became pastor of the St. Lukes Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
After this he toured around the country, he spend some time in the lumber camps in the north west, then he went to San Francisco he arrived there in 1906 right after the earthquake and fire. he went with Alfred Walker, they did odd jobs, later Alfred became mayor of San Francisco, while there Paul got Typhoid fever, he was found on the beach by a Chinese who took him into his home and brought him back to health. The Chinese told him to write home and ask for train fare home.
On Sept 24, 1913 he married Emily Beitzel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they lived in Hustisford, his home town. Here his first child Grace was born in 1918.
Paul moved to 519 Farwell Ave., Milwaukee around 1920, in 1921 twins were born, Gene and Eugene.
Paul always had a bit of the wanderer's blood in him , he loved to travel and see the world, he loved the great outdoors, hunting, fishing and just walking. So he got a job as a lineman for the Alaska Railroad he went to Alaska to work, he worked there till April 1925, he told many stories of the animals and the adventure, he had while repairing the telegraph lines on the rail lines.
In July of 1923, president Harding came to visit Alaska, his secret service men stayed at his house over night, he got to talk to the president also.
In the spring of 1925 he came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From August to Oct 1925 he lived in Chicago, Illinois.
Nov 1925 he built a home at 4023 S. Clement Ave., Town of Lake, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin.
He raised New Zealand White Rabbits, won many prizes with the rabbits. One year he took Grand Champion ribbon in Chicago, Illinois
Paul had a number of jobs, one was for the ADT which installed burglar alarms. His last job was for the Milwaukee Gas Co., he also worked for Allis Challmers during WW II.
After Paul retired he moved to Hustisford, Wisconsin into a house his dad had owned. He bought it when his dad died. It was on Wild Cat Creek just west of town, he build an addition on to it. They lived there till his son Eugene died, then Paul sold it.
They moved to Elyria, Ohio and lived in a trailer, his daughter Grace and her family lived there and had a filling station and store, Grace became pregnant and couldn't take care of the store, so Paul and Emily took over the store.
In Aug of 1956 they left Ohio and started to winter in the south. They spent some time in Phoenix, Arizona, McAllen, Texas and Florida and other places.
In 1958 they came back to Wisconsin, they spent a little time in Stone Bank, Wisconsin-Trailer Court. Then they took their trailer to Cornucopia, Wisc and parked it on a piece of land they bought on the shores of Lake Superior, Paul built a cabin around the trailer, here they lived till Emily became ill.
In the spring of 1966 Emily had a stroke and they had to leave Cornucopia. They spent the last years of their lives at hospitals, a nursing home, their daughter Gene's home in New Berlin and then in 1966 in the trailer camp in Waukesha, Wisconsin. From there they went to a trailer camp south of Horicon, Wisc., Paul became very ill on Dec 9, 1966. Gene took him to her home and kept him till he went into a coma. The last day and a half he spent in Waukash Hospital where he died Dec 19, 1966
Emily stayed with her daughter Gene Louise, 2 weeks and one day later she died of a heart attack.
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1888 - 1968 (80 years)
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