Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Reedsburg:

Rev. George F. Engelhardt was born in Germany, Aug. 16, 1843; was educated in the kingdom of Wittenburg, in the college of Ulm; he afterward spent some time in the missionary school at St. Chrishona, near Basle, Switzerland, and still later, studied in the Evangelical St. Martin's Stift at Coblenz; from this place Mr. E. came to America, in the year of 1863; for a time after reaching this country, he was both student and teacher in the university was Watertown, Wis; leaving this position, he opened a private school at Richwood, Wis., and for two years gave his attention to that work; he afterward spent one year at Quincy, Ill.; Mr. E. was twice located in Louisville, Ky.; once as German Principal of Public Schools, and, later, as assistant editor of the Louisville Anszeiger; at a meeting of the German Protestant League of North America, held in Hamilton, Ohio, in the spring of 1867, Mr. E. was regularly ordained by the Rev. A. Kroell, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mr. Engelhardt has acted as Pastor for the church in Pomeroy, Ohio, and also at New Richmond, in the same State. Mr. E. was married, May 21, 1865, at Richmond, Wis., to Miss Paulina Anders, who was born in Prussia Nov. 12, 1840; Mr. E. has a family of four children - Mary, born July 15, 1867; Charles, born Nov. 28, 1869 (is now a violinist); Arthur, born Nov. 22, 1875; and Eliza, who was born Oct. 8, 1878. Mr. E. went to Reedsburg, Wis., to assume the pastorate of St. John's German Evangelical Church March 15, 1880.Return to Sauk County Biographies