From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 359-360.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


HERMANN LINGEN

Hermann Lingen, an enterprising and well-known merchant tailor of 
Wheeling, was born in Germany, September 17, 1827.  His trade he 
learned at Paris, whither he went in 1840.  While there in 1848 he 
took part in the revolution against  Louis Phillippi, which resulted 
in the election of Louis Napoleon as president.  In March, of the 
year of the latter's election, Mr. Lingen went back to Germany, to 
assist in the revolution of 1849.  Warrants were issued for the 
arrest of eleven of the revolutionists of his district, but he and 
five others escaped arrest.  Subsequently, however, he returned and 
stood trial, and was liberated.  On account of a speech he made to 
the jury a new warrant was issued for him in 1852, but he received 
warning of the same and fled to England, and thence came to the 
United States in the same year.  Meanwhile, on January 7, 1850,
he had been married in Prussia, to Anna Catharina Herkenrath,
who accompanied him in his departure from his native land.  They
landed in New York in March, 1852, and remained there until
1865, when he made a visit to Germany, returning to this 
country in October.  About two weeks after reaching New York he was 
called to Wheeling as cutter for Stein & Co., tailors and clothiers, 
and after he had been with them a year and a half he opened an 
establishment of his own.  In 1878 he invented and patented a 
measuring jacket, and in order to devote himself to the manufacture 
and sale of this he sold out his business in 1881.  Not succeeding in 
his plans, however, he took a position with T. C. Moffett & Co., as 
cutter, for two years.  He then patented an improvement on his 
jacket.  Returning to business in 1885, he has since carried on one 
of the leading merchant tailoring establishments.  Mr. Lingen is a 
member of Bates lodge, F. & A. M., and in religion is a member of the 
Catholic church. 


(Linda Fluharty)