Emil Kiesewetter

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Emil Kiesewetter

Emil Kiesewetter (born May 15, 1845 in Prairie Township , Ohio , † October 28, 1924 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American accountant, soldier and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was Ohio State Auditor from 1884 to 1888 .

Career

Emil Kiesewetter, son of Joanna E. († 1850) and Theodore Kiesewetter († 1874), was born in Franklin County about a year before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . His parents both immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1844 and settled in Franklin County. The family stayed in Prairie Township until 1849 when they moved to Columbus, Ohio. At the age of 12 he started working in a hotel there. Kiesewetter later attended Columbus Commercial College, where he learned bookkeeping. He then worked as an accountant until 1862.

During the Civil War he enlisted on September 30, 1862 as a private in Company B in the 46th  Infantry Regiment of Ohio. At the Battle of Resaca on May 14, 1864, he was seriously injured in the left hip. He was forced to stay in bed for seven months when he developed gangrene . As a result of treatment by a surgeon, he was able to recover and left Camp Chase in Columbus on March 31, 1865. He stayed at the camp as an employee until August 25, 1865.

He then began working as an accountant in a company in Columbus - a position he held until 1878. On November 4, 1869, he married Francis Orthafer. The couple had two sons. Kiesewetter was elected Auditor in Franklin County in 1878. At the Democratic State Convention in 1883 he was nominated for the post of Auditor of State of Ohio. In the following election, in the fall of 1883, he defeated incumbent Auditor of State John F. Oglevee of the Republican Party . He took up his post in January 1884. During his tenure, on November 8, 1885, he shot a newspaper reporter twice in a Columbus hotel. The reporter criticized Kiesewetter in his newspaper. The shots missed their target. Kiesewetter was arrested and brought before Mayor Charles C. Walcutt on November 16, 1885 , who dismissed the charges because Kiesewetter was provoked. In his re-election in 1887, he suffered a defeat against the Republican Ebenezer W. Poe . His term of office ended in January 1888. Kiesewetter died in Columbus in 1924 and was then buried there in Green Lawn Cemetery . He was a member of the Freemasons , Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) and the Knights of Pythias .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 32, 473, and 541
  2. ^ Alfred Emory Lee: History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio , Volume 1, Munsell & Company, 1892, pp. 461f
  3. ^ Emil Kiesewetter in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  4. ^ Green Lawn Cemetery Burial Records

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SURNAME Kiesewetter, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American accountant, soldier and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Prairie Township , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1924
Place of death Columbus , Ohio