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About GenCircles
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| Tom 0atney |     |
| THIMMES, Nicholas (1805 - Present) |
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ouisa Oatney, daughter of Benedict and Christina Otteni, was born on 11 Mar 1836 in Fairfield County, Ohio. Lousia was 17 years old when she married Mathias Thimmes. On 7 Aug 1853, Joshua Young, a priest at St. Mary Catholic Church, performed the marriage. No witnesses were recorded in the Fairfield County Court House files. Mathias was born on 24 Apr 1829. Although the original sources are not cited, the Thimmes Family History mentions the following as background on the Thimmes family.
In the 1870 U.S. Census, both Mathias and his oldest son, John, listed their occupation as "butcher". According to The Biographical Record of Fairfield County, John began to assist Mathias at the meat market at the age of twelve. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, Christian, Charles, William and Frank were also in the butchering business. They all were listed with the occupation of "butcher."
Much of the history of the family business is recorded in The Biographical Record of Fairfield County published in 1902. The following is an excerpt from the sketch on John Thimmes, son of Louisa and Mathias. Mathias Thimmes...was reared upon the home farm and on leaving the parental roof learned the butcher's trade in Lancaster. He afterward opened a meat market in this city and in connection with its management began dealing in live stock, hogs and cattle. He carried on his own butchering and often bought and sold for parties in the east. His business reached quite extensive proportions, becoming one of the leading commercial interests of this city. The biographical sketch indicated that Mathias started his business in 1848. In 1874, Mathias entered into a partnership with his son, John. In 1877, John purchased his father's interest in the business. John continued alone for three years at which time he entered into a partnership with his two brothers, Christian and Charles. The business became known as "Thimmes Brothers." The sketch continues to say: They are now carrying on an extensive butchering business and have a large building, which was erected for packing, smoking and curing of meats. There is also a cold storage in connection and the members of the firm are extensive buyers and shippers of hogs and cattle. They also feed large numbers and handle annually about thirty thousand hogs and large number of export cattle, which they buy and ship to Baltimore, Maryland, their principal hog markets being Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, Illinois. The business has now assumed extensive proportions and annually brings to the partners a handsome financial return on their investments. Mathias Thimmes died on 26 September 1892. He is buried in St. Mary Cemetery in Lancaster, Ohio in a family plot with a family monument. Louisa Oatney Thimmes, who died 19 years later on 3 December 1911, is buried next to Mathias. Many other family members are buried in the family plot located in Row 1 of the "Holy Mother of God" section. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||