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Wendelin Lattner
Dubuque County
WWENDELIN LATTNER
Born November 20, 1835, in Baden, Germany. In 1847, he came with his parents to New York and engaged in the railroad business till 1856, when he with others of his family removed to Dubuque County, and settled in Lattnerville, which place was laid out by him and brothers. He represented this Dubuque County in the Legislature during the Fifteenth General Assembly. In 1874, he came to Worthington and commenced his present business being the proprietor of the Worthington Creamery. Mr. Lattner married Miss Magdalena Smidt in 1864, a native of Alsace, France, and they had seven children. He was a democrat.