Henry Messerschmidt

MESSERSCHMIDT, HAKOT, LIATIRITS

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:43:50

Henry Messerschmidt is a native of Germany, born at Hanover, June 13, 1837. In 1867 he left his native land and came to America. On landing at New York, he went directly to Freeport, Ill., where he engaged in farming, until 1876, when he came to Franklin county, Iowa. In March, 1882, he came to Madison and bought his present farm on section fifteen.
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He married, April 17, 1862, Louisa Hakot. They have had four children - August, Lisa, Augusta and Lena. Mrs. Messerschmidt died February 18, 1879, of typhoid fever, after an illness of two weeks. He married his second wife, Louisa Liatirits, February 26, 1880. They have had two children - Ernst and Ida.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 633-634