Schlenker, John, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to the United States in 1852 with his parents, who settled in Wyoming county, N. Y. He was educated in the district schools and in 1860 came to Batavia, where he learned the tinsmith and plumber trades, and in 1875 established a business for himself, in which he remained until 1892. In 1870 He married Julia Schleddler. who died in 1879. On April 7, 1887, he married Anna S. Nichols. Mr. Schlenker is an industrious, frugal and highly honorable man, and a citizen without reproach.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890