HEnry Tideman, secretary of the Menominee Electric Manufacturing Company and president of the Dudly Tool Company, was born in New South Wales, Australia, on the 27th of August, 1863. When but three years old was taken to Germany and reared to maturity by his influential relatives. He is a son of Dr. H. G. Tideman, a physician and surgeon of some distinction, who served in the United States army for seven years. He was for a number of years actively engaged in the practice of his profession in Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette, Wisconsin, where his death occurred on April 12, 1892.

Henry Tideman secured his educational discipline under the direction of a private tutor, in the military academy, Blankenese and Potsdam, and attended the University of Heidelberg, Berlin and Midweida, Saxony, Germany. In 1881 he first came to America. He worked in New York city, Buffalo and Detroit, and was employed principally as a designer and engineer. In 1882 he located in Menominee and organized the Menominee Electric Manufacturing Company, of which he is secretary and general manager today.

In 1885, July 16th, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Henry Tideman to Miss Evalyn Sieger, of Detroit, Michigan, where she was born and reared, being the daughter of John Sieger, a citizen of Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Tideman have two children, William and Harold.