When this gentleman first saw Redlands, seven years ago, he decided in thirty minutes that it was the most beautiful place he had ever seen, in this country or abroad, and in about the same length of time closed a bargain for the fine ranch on Brookside Avenue, where he intends to spend the remainder of his days.\u00a0 Born near Hamburg, Germany, 62 years ago, Mr. Lienau laid the foundations for the profession of school teaching and then came to America.\u00a0 At first things did not go quite as smoothly with him as he had expected, and his battle with life included hard knocks on the farm, in the forest in mercantile and manufacturing business until seven years after his arrival in this country, he entered the field of German Journalism at St. Paul, Minn., in which he remained for nearly 28 years, editing and publishing the Weekly Volksblatt for six years, the Daily Volksblatt for two years, and the Daily Volkszeitung for twenty years.<\/p>\n
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Journalism naturally led Mr. Lienau into politics and he was soon elected to office.\u00a0 He served first as alderman of St. Paul, then, in 1863, as City Comptroller.\u00a0 In 1864 he was delegated to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, which nominated Gen. Geo. B. McClellan for president.\u00a0 Nominated, in 1868, as candidate for elector on the Seymour ticket, Mr. Lienau stumped the state with his opponent on the Republican ticket, Gen. Malmros.\u00a0 During the legislative sessions of \u201967, \u201968 and \u201972 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Minnesota.\u00a0 In 1873 he was elected Judge of Probate and from 1874 to \u201978 he served as a member of the Minnesota State Senate.\u00a0 In 1879 he was at the head of the educational interests of St. Paul, as President of the Board of Education.\u00a0 In 1882 and 1883 he held the office of Recorder of Deeds and in 1885 was again returned to the legislature.\u00a0 A four-year term in the senate to which he was elected unanimously in 1890, closed Mr. Lienau\u2019s political career and he retired to his orange ranch in Redlands.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Lienau was married when 22 years of age to Mathilde Speck of Germany.\u00a0 They have eight living children, five boys and three girls, all of age, three of whom are living in California, three in Minnesota one in Missouri and one in Mexico.<\/p>\n
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(Source:\u00a0 Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, 1897, p. 11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21073,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/21071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/21071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=21071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}