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Gustav Koerner

Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner (20 November 1809 – 9 April 1896), was a German-American revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge and statesman in Illinois and Germany, and a Colonel of the U.S. Army who was a confessed enemy of slavery. He married on 17 June 1836 in Belleville Sophia Dorothea Engelmann (16 November 1815 – 1 March 1888);[3] they had 9 children.[4] He belonged to the co-founders and was one of the first members of the Grand Old Party, and was a close confidant of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd, and had an essential role in his nomination and election for president in 1860.[1]

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Gustav Philipp Körner

(1809-11-20)20 November 1809
Free City of Frankfurt

9 April 1896(1896-04-09) (aged 86)
Belleville, Illinois

Walnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois

 United States (1838)

German, American

Republican (co-founder)

Sophie Engelmann
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(m. 1836; died 1888)​

  1. Theodore (*1837)
  2. Margaret (*1838)
  3. Mary (*1838)
  4. Augusta (*1842)
  5. Gustavus Adolphus (*1845)
  6. Paulina (*1847)
  7. Caroline (*1848)
  8. Frederick (*1849)
  9. Victor (*1853)[1]

200 Abend St., Belleville, Illinois 62220

University of Heidelberg, Transylvania University

  • Politician
  • lawyer
  • judge
  • journalist

Doctor juris utriusque

www.gustavekoerner.org

  • United States of America
  • Union

1861–1862

Colonel,
Brig. General[2]

43rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

American Civil War

Jesse K. Dubois

Stephen T. Logan

James L. Lamb

Samuel Hubbel Treat Jr.

John Williams

Erastus White

J. M. Brown

Jacob Bunn

Charles Matheny

Elisha Iles

John T. Stuart

Gustave Koerner House

Illinois gubernatorial election, 1852

List of governors of Illinois

List of lieutenant governors of Illinois

Koerner, Gustave (1909). McCormack, Thomas J. (ed.). (book). Digitization Projects Philologic Results. Vol. 1 (Permission: Northern Illinois University, Illinois State Library ed.). Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896, Life-Sketches Written at the Suggestion of His Children

Koerner, Gustave (1909). McCormack, Thomas J. (ed.). (book, JavaScript). The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant. Vol. 2 (Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection ed.). Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896, Life-Sketches Written at the Suggestion of His Children

Collections of the Important General Laws of Illinois, with Comments (St. Louis, 1838) (in German)

Körner, Gustav (1867). Aus Spanien [Out of Spain] (in German). Frankfurt a.M.: J.D. Sauerländer.  014164399.

OCLC

Körner, Gustav Philipp (1880). [The German Element in the United States of America, 1818-1848]. Library of American civilization, LAC 15737 (in German and English). Cincinnati: A.E. Wilde. OCLC 011355941.

Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818-1848

; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Koerner, Gustav" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

Wilson, J. G.

(Deutsche Biographie)

Gustav Körner