Historic Workers
of German Village
Henry Falkenbach
1878
lamplighter
Henry was born in 1842 in Prussia. In 1880, he was married to Barbara and they had five children.

In 1878, he worked as a lamplighter. From the 1820's to the beginning of the twentieth century, gas powered streetlights
required their services.
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