Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

FRANK LOHMANN, farmer and brickmaker, P.O. Ashland, was born Dec.
3, 1834, in Germany, of which country his parents, Frank and
Elizabeth (Burns) Lohmann were natives.  Mr. Lohmann, Sr., our
subject's father, died of cholera, Nov. 1, 1850, aged about 62
years; his wife died 1865, aged also about 62 years.  Frank, the
youngest of a family of five children, received an education in
his native land, and assisted his father in the coal and salt
business, and in running a boat.  At the age of sixteen he began
learning the bakery and brewing trade, and in May, 1855, came to
America and located at Wheeling, W. Va.; in March, 1875, came to
Ashland, and in 1876, started a brickyard, where he still carries
on the brick-making business, and in addition is also engaged in
farming.  He had the misfortune to be burnt out once, with a loss
of $3,500, but has since erected several brick blocks at Ashland,
and has done much to make the town what it is.  At Dixon, Lee
Co., Ills., he married Dina Pahl, a native of Germany, born May
27, 1836; died in 1869.  His second wife, whom he married June
26, 1876, is Artilicia D. Clark, a native of Menard Co., Ill.,
born in 1844.  He has five children, viz.: Joseph B., Frank,
Lewis, Sophia, and Bertie.  Mr. Lohmann is a member of the Town
Board, and of the County Central Democratic Committee; while at
Beardstown he held the office of Supervisor.  He is a Democrat,
and a member of the A.F. and A.M., and Knights of Honor.

Lohmann Burns Pahl Clark
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Germany WV Lee-IL Menard-IL