Adolph F. Heidkamp [SEP] position held
Adolph F. Heidkamp
Adolph F. Heidkamp was a member of the Michigan Senate.
Biography.
Heidkamp was born in Port Washington, Wisconsin. He would become a banker.
Heidkamp was the son of Adolph N. Heidkamp, a newspaper publisher and Probate Judge in Ozaukee County who immigrated from Odenthal Germany in 1852; and Anne-Marie Hansen from Redange, Everlange in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. His Mother was previously married to Francois (Franz) Gengler, with whom she had three children: John, Marguerite and
Elizabeth. She married Senator Heidkamp's father in 1854 and bore him four children who survived into adulthood: Louise (married to Nicholas Watry), Anna Elizabeth (married to William Diederich), Adolph F. and Emil Michael (married to Rose Isabel Young). Senator Heidkamp remained a bachelor his entire life.
Senator Heidkamp served as President of the village of Lake Linden in northern Michigan for 24 years before serving in the Michigan Senate. He was also Secretary-Treasurer of Bosch Brewery in Houghton prior to serving in the