This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EHMEN, POST Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wg.2ADE/4689 Message Board Post: Quincy and Adams County History and Representative Men (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1919) John Ehmen, one of the widely known men in Northeastern Adams County, a practical and successful farmer, was born in Houston Township of this county October 1, 1869, son of E. and Rinnie Ehmen. His father came to Adams County when about twenty-one years of age, and the mother when a child with her parents, the Miller family locating in Clayton Township. Mr Ehmen's father was a blacksmith by trade, and located at Chatten in Houston Township, where he conducted a shop for many years and where he died in 1904, at the age of sixty-five. His widow survived until September 20, 1917, and died at the age of sixty-eight. They were members of the Lutheran Church at Golden and the father was a democrat. Their family consisted of John, Mary, Geesche, Trenke, Minnie, Emma, George, Albert, Richard and Anna. The son Albert is now railway station agent at Chatten, an office formerly held by his father. John Ehmen was education at Chatten, and since reaching his majority has applied his efforts most successfully to farming. He bought a farm of 120 acres in Northeast Township, sold that and bought twnety-four acres in the Village of Golden, building a house and otherwise improving it, but sold that in 1914 and came to his present place in Clayton Township, where he has 120 acres. Mr Ehmen is independent in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church. In February, 1893, he married Miss Hiemke Post, daughter of Fred Post, of Champaign County, Illinois. They have two children: Emma, born April 16, 1895, and Grace Lucile, born July 28, 1906. Emma is the wife of Henry R. Gronewald, of Houston Township, and they have three children: Luellen, Leo and Violet.