Charles Frederick Wedekind

Is one of Logansport's prominent business men, has been active there for over a third of a century, and is manager and one of the owners of the Lake Maxinkuckee Ice & Coal Company, at 824 Michigan Avenue.

Mr. Wedekind was born in Logansport, April 27, 1863. His mother, Hannah Kerlin, was from New Jersey. His gradfather Wedekind was a native of Germany and settled at Richmond, Indiana, in 1840. He was a physician, and that was also the profession of Charles F. Wedekind's father.

Charles F. Wedekind was two years of age when his father died and from an early age he had to make his own way in the world. He has a common school education. He worked on a farm, but later returned to his native city and for thirty-seven years has been identified with the ice business. After many years as manager of the Lake Maxinkuckee Ice & Coal Company he acquired an interest in the business and is one of its owners. Mr. Wedekind is a Republican and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

He married Marian Skelton, who died in 1904, leaving three children. His second wife was Gertrude Puterbaugh, who passed away December 25, 1920. Mr. Wedekind has two daughters and one son by the first marriage: Earl F.; Alice, who married Homer Hawkens; and Eva, who married John Miller. To the second marriage was born a son, Charles J., who married Louise Clegg. - INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 5 By Charles Roll, A.M. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931

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