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Undertaker; Klaehn and Melching
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Klaehn was educated at the St. Paul's and Emanuel Lutheran parochial schools, Concordia College and the Fort Wayne Business College, and in 1876 joined the undertaking business of Hall and Klaehn, in which his Saxony-born father, Julius J. Klaehn, was junior partner. On the father's death on 1 January 1880 the business was sold to Scheumann and Schoppman; the son bought Schoppman's interest in 1888 and Scheumann's in 1898, taking full control, and in March 1911 — his health strained by the business's long hours — admitted Albert E. Melching as partner, the firm becoming Klaehn and Melching. He was a director of the German-American National Bank and a trustee of Emanuel Lutheran Church. He married Julia Breimeyer on 15 May 1885.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.