August Klammer
| Name: August Klammer Company: E Wounded at Nashville December 16, 1864; discharged from hospital June 21, 1865. |
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August Klammer Biography
August Klammer was born in Grabow, Kreis Regenwalde, Pommern (Germany) on October 19, 1839 to Jacob and Catherine Klammer. August migrated to the United States via Bremen in 1858. On November 15, 1861 he married Louisa Schimmelpfennig, born November 4, 1842 in Labenz, Kreis Dramburg, Pommern (Germany). After losing his right leg from a wound in the Battle of Nashville on December 16, 1864, August became Post Master in Chaska, Carver County, Minnesota, in 1869. August and Louisa had four children living with them in 1880:- Augustus Albert (born May 3, 1867; married Mabel Wilson, September 1894; died August 9, 1955 in Ramsey County, Minnesota)
- Bruno Bernard (born August 29, 1871; married Emma Odell, June 1905; died June 3, 1936 in Nicollet County, Minnesota)
- Kalmer Karl (born January 26, 1877; married Carrie Patronella
Iltis,
about October 1906; died August 27, 1951 in Scott County, Minnesota)
- Louisa Helena (born November 4, 1878; died December 20, 1918 in Carver County, Minnesota)
August retired from the post office in 1891. August and Louisa celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in November 1911.
Louisa died March 4, 1924 in Carver County, Minnesota, and was buried in the Moravian Church Cemetery, Chaska, Carver County, Minnesota. When August died five years later on August 11, 1929, he was buried with her.
