From: Indiana Historical Bureau
Quote from the entry on him from A Biographical Directory of the
Indiana General Assembly, vol. I (1816-1899) published in Indianapolis in
1980.
Sarnighausen, John D. Senate, 1871 (unsuccessfully defended his seat
against a contest by Ochmig Bird; unseated February 3, 1871) (ALLEN), 1873
(Adams and ALLEN), 1875, 1877, 1879 (Adams, ALLEN, and Wells). Born October
31, 1818, Hanover, Germany. Attended colleges at Stade and Luneburg,
Germany; University of Gottingen. Lutheran. Never married. Emigrated to the
United States in 1860; and moved to Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, in
1862. Newspaper editor; teacher; minister; part-owner and editor, Fort
Wayne Staats Zeitung, 1862 and after. Democrat. Died November 8, 1901,
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.
The sources given for this entry are:
William H. English Collection. Indiana Historical Society Library. Consists
of inforamtion about nineteenth century legislators gathered by English for
a biographical directory. Much of the information came from legislators and
family members or descendants.
Brief Biographies of the Members of the Indiana State Government;
Executive, Judicial, and Legislative, 1874-75. Indianapolis, n.d.
Biographical Sketches of Members of the Indiana State Government, State
and Judicial Officials, and Members of the 51st Legislative Assembly,
1879. Indianapolis, n.d.
Memorial Record of Northeastern Indiana. Chicago, 1896
Robert Stoddard Robertson. Valley of the Upper Maumee River, with
Historical Account of Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Madison, Wis., 1889.
The Indiana Historical Bureau does not hold any of these volumes except the
Biographical Directory from which the entry is quoted. The Indiana
Division of the Indiana State Library (www.statelib.lib.in.us) or the
Indiana Historical Society library may have them (www.indianahistory.org).
