From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 620 - 621
 
AUGUST LUEDTKE.  Few farmers of Walworth county carry on their work with any 
greater degree of science that August LUEDTKE, of Lyons township, for he is a 
close student of everything that pertains to his work, and he is deserving of a 
great deal of credit for what he has accomplished, having come here from a 
foreign shore with no capital, but with what amounted to more - a willingness 
to work, an ambition to succeed, and a strong constitution.  He was born in 
Pommern, Wultendorf, Prussia, Germany, on October 9, 1855.  He is the son of 
Fred and Louisa (BLAEDAN) LUEDTKE, the father having been brought up on a large 
farm in the fatherland but afterwards became a shepherd.
 
When the subject was eight years of age the father and mother and their 
children emigrated to America and settled near Burlington, Wisconsin, where 
they followed farming, later buying a farm in sections 12 and 13 in Lyons 
township, Walworth county, and here the parents spent the rest of their lives, 
and on this farm the subject grew to manhood.
 
August LUEDTKE was married on July 18, 1878, to Anna Louise B. SCHMIDT, 
daughter of William and Caroline (BUSHEN) SCHMIDT.  She was born and reared in 
Wheatland township, Kenosha county, this state.  Her parents were from the same 
locality in Germany in which the subject was born.  Her parents came to 
Burlington township, Kenosha county, Wisconsin, and here spent the rest of 
their lives.  Four children have been born to the subject and wife, namely, 
Cora, Louis, Emma, and Florence.
 
The subject has spent his life engaged in farming on the home place, having 
operated the same ever since his marriage.  He has an excellent farm of one 
hundred and twenty acres which he has placed under a high grade of improvements 
and cultivation and where he has made a good living and has a pleasant home.
 
Mr. LUEDTKE has been a member of the township board of supervisors of Lyons 
township for two years.  He and his family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church at Burlington.

Submitted By:  Carol
(carolann612@charter.net)