From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E.J. Heinemann 
 
p. 644 
 
LOUIS NAUMANN, of Triadelphia, Ohio county, West Virginia, is a retired  
farmer, who was born in Germany, January 13, 1846, where he received  
his schooling.  At the age of nineteen years, he came to this country,  
landing in New York, and going to Long Island, where he accepted a  
position as gardener.  There he remained for the next fifteen months,  
after which he moved to Triadelphia, Ohio county, West Virginia, and  
worked as a laborer on a farm for two years.  At the end of that time  
he rented a farm, and the next two years were spent in working on it.  
He then moved on his mother-in-law's farm, and built a house in which  
he lived until 1894.  Then he bought five acres of land on which was a  
fine, seven-room house, in which he and his family reside at the  
present time.  In connection with his farm, he purchased a coal bank in  
1881, which he worked successfully for seventeen years, when he retired  
from business. 
     Mr. Naumann was married, in 1868, to Caroline Brandstrop, a 
daughter of Henry Brandstrop, who was a native of Germany.  He was 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he prospered very much, and 
died at the age of seventy-five years, respected and highly esteemed by 
all who knew him. 
     Louis Naumann and his wife have been blessed with a number of 
children, among whom are the following:  Louis, born in May, 1869, who 
is a farmer and lives with his wife in Illinois; Annie, wife of E. C.  
Burkham, who resides at Fay's Run; Ella, who is the wife of Arthur M.  
Terrill, a miller of Triadelphia; John, an electrician, who is in  
Chicago; Fanny, wife of Clark McKee; Charles, also an electrician, who  
is married and lives at Triadelphia; Henry, unmarried, who is a piano  
tuner and resides with his father; and Albert and Arnold, who also live  
at home. 
     Mr. Naumann is a member of the M. E. church.  In fraternal circles 
he is a member of the I. O. O. F., Triadelphia Lodge, No. 94, which he  
joined nineteen years ago; he has passed through all the chairs, and  
has been a representative to the Grand Lodge of West Virginia.  He also  
affiliates with the K. of P., Mystic Lodge, No., of Elm Grove.  In  
politics he is an independent Democrat.