HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1186-87.   [Kenton County]

GEORGE H. KLAENE, president of the Star Foundry Company, of Covington, is
an able and representative business man in the city which has represented
his home since he was a lad of about nine years of age.  Mr. Klaene was
born in Lutten, duchy of Oldenberg, Germany, on the 17th of October, 1857,
and he is a son of Harmon Henry and Catherine (Boske) Klaene, both of whom
were likewise natives of the German Empire, where the former was engaged
in gardening and where his death occurred about the year 1859.  The
widowed mother and surviving children emigrated to the United States in
1866.  The long and weary trip was made in a sailing vessel, the voyage
covering a period of ten weeks and three days.  The "Austria Nome" landed
at Baltimore, Maryland, when the family proceeded to Covington, Kenton
county, Kentucky, where Mrs. Klaene joined her son Henry and her brother,
John Boske, who had come to America in 1864.  The mother passed the residue
of her life in this city and was summoned to the life eternal at the
venerable age of eighty-six years.  She was the mother of five sons, four
of whom accompanied her to the United States, and of the number three are
now living, the subject of this review being the youngest of the family.
     George H. Klaene was a lad of but nine years at the time of the family
immigration to America and he was afforded the advantages of St. Joseph's
parochial schools in Covington.  When seventeen years of age he learned
the moulder's trade in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and he followed the
same with marked success for a number of years in Cincinnati and Covington.
In 1890 he became one of the organizers of the Star Foundry Company,
which was incorporated, on the 17th of April of that year, with a capital
stock of ten thousand dollars, four thousand of which was paid in.  The
official corps of this company consisted of the following: George H.
Klaene, president; George Ling, vice-president; Gerhard Haar, treasurer.
Anton Graving and Joseph Klaene, together with the above officers,
constituted the original board of directors.  On the 19th of April, 1906,
the company was reorganized and reincorporated under the laws of the
state, with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars.  The present
officers are: George H. Klaene, president; A. B. Graving, vice-president;
and August Odberding, treasurer.  They also constitute the present board
of directors.  The business was begun on a small scale as a jobbing
foundry and later the manufacturing of stoves and ranges was introduced.
The scope of the business has been gradually increased and the concern is
now one of the most successful of its kind in the state.  It employs a
force of forty men and the trade covers the states of Indiana, Ohio and
Kentucky.  The Star Foundry Company is widely known for its fair and
honorable business methods, and one of the best assets of the company is
the eminently reliable character of its executive officers.
     In politics George H. Klaene is a staunch advocate of the cause of
the Democratic party, and he has contributed in generous measure to the
conservation of the civic and material welfare of the city which has so
long represented his home.  Both he and his wife are communicants of the
Catholic church, being members of the parish of St. Joseph's church.  Mr.
Klaene is affiliated with the Catholic Benevolent Society and is now
serving his second term as treasurer in the same.
     In 1884 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Klaene to Miss Margaret
Welling, who was born in Newport, Campbell county, Kentucky, and who is a
daughter of Henry Welling, a representative citizen and business man of
that place.  Mr. and Mrs. Klaene became the parents of eight children,
seven of whom are now living.  Kathleen is deceased, and Mary, Clara,
Frank, Anna, Gertrude, Margaret and Agnes all remain at the parental home.

Klaene Boske Ling Haar Graving Odberding Welling
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Newport-Campbell-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH MD Germany

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