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

THEODORE WILKINS, deceased; was born in the city of Berlin, 
Germany, Dec. 13, 1820; his father was a major in the 
Prussian army. Mr. Wilkins completed a college course, and 
at the age of seventeen entered the army as a private 
soldier; he passed his examination at the end of three 
months, and, after attending an artillery and engineer's 
school at Berlin, received a lieutenant's commission, and 
served until 1847, when he resigned. He then came to the 
United States, and settled near Washington, Franklin Co., 
Mo., where he engaged in farming, and where, in 1849, he 
married Matilda Manlinckrodt, who died in 1853, leaving one 
son, Paul, a teacher in St. Louis, Mo.; she was a daughter 
of Julius Manlinckrodt. In 1855, he married Bertha Setzer; 
her father emigrated from Hamburg, Germany, and settled at 
Hermann, Mo., in 1837, she being then a child of nine 
years. In 1858, Mr. Wilkins moved to St. Louis, Mo., having 
previously sold his farm, and been engaged in the drug 
business in Washington, Mo. He was a Collector in St. Louis 
until the breaking out of the late war, when, in April, 
1861, he was elected Captain of a Home Guard Company, 
afterward serving in the Second Missouri Artillery three 
years as major, being in active service at the capture of 
Camp Jackson, at Carthage, and other points. After the war 
he was Assessor in St. Louis, Mo., until 1868, when he came 
to Beardstown. Here he engaged as Secretary of the Illinois 
Insurance Company, and was afterward Cashier of the Cass 
County Bank until 1878, when he resigned that position, and 
became editor of the Beardstown Wochenblatt, a German 
paper, which he edited until the time of his death, which 
occurred May 11, 1881. By his last marriage seven children 
were born, four of whom are living, two sons and two 
daughters.

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