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Its life, resources, industries, people, politics, government, wars, institutions, achievements, the press, schools and churches, legendary and prehistoric lore Volume III From
the Library of Congress #32-15882, Copyright 1928 Robert Henry Luhmann, who owns and conducts at 146 Pine street in the city of Muskegon a barber shop that is metropolitan in equipment and service and who is one of the popular young business men of his native city, was born in Muskegon, October 22, 1889. He is a son of August H. and Catherine* Luhmann, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1854 and the latter in 1855. August H. Luhmann came to the United States in the year 1876, and after passing two years in New York he came to Michigan and established his residence at North Muskegon, which was then a thriving industrial city with about forty-five sawmills. He was employed in connection with the mills until they were closed down, in the ‘90s, owing to the depletion of available timber, and for a number of years thereafter he was in the employ of the Chase-Hackley Piano Company, one of the important manufacturing concerns of Muskegon. He is now caretaker of Lakeside Cemetery, and is well known and highly esteemed in Muskegon county. He is a Republican, and is affiliated with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees. His wife died in 1894, their children having been six in number and the subject of this sketch having been fifth in order of birth. The elder of the two daughters is Mrs. E. W. Thompson, of Muskegon, and the younger is Mrs. R. Killingbeck, of Michigan City, Indiana. Otto A. resides in Muskegon, William C. is deceased, and Edward still resides in Muskegon. In the public schools of Muskegon, Robert H. Luhmann continued his studies until he was sixteen years old, and thereafter he was employed in turn by the Mann & Watson Lumber Company and the Stewart & Hartshorne Company. From 1907 to 1910 he was assistant cemetery superintendent under his father, and then he passed a year in the city of Chicago, where he learned the barber’s trade. He returned to Muskegon in 1911 and took a position in the barber shop of Schweitzer & Lake. In 1912 he purchased the shop and business, which he has since conducted most successfully, besides which he purchased, with A. C. Gerst, in February, 1923, the florist business of E. F. Luhmann, he having sold this business in June, 1924. Mr. Luhmann is aligned in the ranks of the Republican party, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Masonic fraternity and the Loyal Order of Moose and Muskegon Recreation Club. June 19, 1913, he wedded Miss Elizabeth Zeckzer, of Muskegon, and they have two children: Robert F., born May 8, 1914, and Ewald Billy, born September 5, 1918. * Her tombstone reads Caroline, not Catherine, and her birth year as 1860, not 1855. |
