FREDERICK NEUSE

NEUSE, SAFFALL

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 15:28:11

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

FREDERICK NEUSE, lumber; born in Frederick Co., Md., in 1807; moved to Lexington, Mo., in 1847; thence to Keokuk in 1848, where he carried on the lumber business until 1873, when he sold out and moved to Alexander, Clarke Co., Mo., where he had a son in business, and located in Centerville in 1876. His wife, Anna Saffall, died in 1873, after forty-three years of a happy married life. He has four children deceased and three living - George R., Frederick N., and Sarah R. (Scott). He has been a member of the M. E. Church forty-eight years. He tendered his services to the Government at the breakint out of the war; was not accepted on account of age. He owns $16,000 worth of improved property in Keokuk and about $4,000 worth in this city, in addition to his stock of lumber valued at $3,000 - sash, doors and blinds -- and a controlling interest in $20,000 worth of lumber in his yard at Alexander, Mo.; he has been in the lumber business thirty-one years.