From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page  820

REV. RICHARD FICKENSCHER, Pastor of the First German Society of the M. E. Church, was born in Sharpsburg, Rudollstadt, Prussia, in August, 1834.  Attending school seven years in his native town, he came to the United States in 1852, and spent two years more in Michigan in acquiring a preliminary education; was converted in 1853, and began his studies for the ministry.  In January, 1855, he was sent as a missionary to La Porte and Michigan City.  In August of the same year he joined the Rock River Conference of the M. E. Church as probationer, and was assigned to Peoria, Ill.  He has held appointments as follows: Harrisonstreet Mission, Chicago; Farmington, Iowa; Michigan City, New Bremen Circuit; Manitowoc, Wis.; Second Charge, Milwaukee; Maxwell-street Station and then Van Buren-street Station, Chicago.  in 1872 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Fond du Lac, and in 1876 of the Chicago district, where he remained three years.  In the Fall of 1879 he was appointed to the Second Charge in Milwaukee, and in 1880 was transferred to the First Charge.  Mr. FICKENSCHER was married in 1860 to Miss Louisa W. DIETHER, formerly of Germany.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Northwestern German-English College, Galena, Ill., and was Statistical Secretary of his Conference for fifteen years.

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