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JOSEPH F. KUHLMAN, manufacturer of cigars, Anamosa; was born in Hanover, Germany, February 3, 1830; when 16 years of age, he emigrated to America, and learned his trade in Boston; he came to Iowa in 1857, lived two years in Dubuque, and came to Jones Co. in 1859, and engaged in cabinet-making, and since then has lived here. He married Gertrude Kutzman, from Germany; they have eleven children, four sons arid seven daughters.
Source: History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 562.
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