Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

GEORGE LEHMANN was born in the province of Alsace, city of Selce, now a
part of Germany, August 1, 1812, and is the youngest in a family of two
sons and two daughters.  His parents, Siemon and Elizabeth (Gehardstein)
Lehmann, were also natives of Alsace; the father was a farmer and
manufacturer of fine oils.  George received an excellent German education
and later learned the trade of confectioner.  At the age of sixteen years
he ran away from home, immigrated to America and located first in the
State of New York, where for eighteen months he worked at his trade. He
then went to New Orleans, where he was employed at his trade and received
good wages.  He was bugler for a short time in Gen. Taylor's army, and
while in the service contracted the yellow fever.  After his recovery, he
went to Cincinnati, thence to Louisville, where he was flour inspector,
and also engaged in the bakery and confectionery business; he was then
employed for two years at steamboating on the Ohio River; later he ran a
boat of his own for some years.  He then rode a fine horse to Bowling
Green, sold it for $800 and engaged in the confectionery business in the
Square, where for forty-four years he remained in the same building and
was very successful.  He had in the meantime purchased the property where
the depot now stands and, with Mr. Skiles, purchased, completed and
operated the Portage Railway, and later sold it to the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad for $20,000.  Mr. Helhamm had accumulated in
steamboats, houses and other property about $125,000; he lost by the war
upward of $85,000, and through the Bowling Greeen Bank $60,000; before and
since the war he has bought and sold 100 houses in the city; he now owns
upward of twenty houses;, a good farm of 120 acres just east of the city;
and a fine vineyard of ten acres; he manufactured the first grape wine in
this county; he has an interest also in the gas-works, of which he is
president.  He was appointed weigh-master by Gov. Morehead, and is at
present serving in that capacity.  He is the original agitator and
projector of the water-works, and many public and beneficient entrprises
of Bowling Green owe their existence to his energy and support.  With all
his losses in the past he is still reckoned among the wealthiest citizens
of Bowling Green.  Mr. Lehmann has never married, and is now the oldest
member of the I. O. O. F. in Bowling Green; he cast his first presidential
vote for Gen. Jackson, and cast but one Whig vote, which was for Henry
Clay.

Lehmann Gehardstein Taylor Skiles Morehead Jackson Clay
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Alsace-Selce-Germany NY LA OH Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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