Fred Pfaltzgraff

PFALTZGRAFF, SCHNELBERGER

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:13:44

Fred Pfaltzgraff was born in Alsace, September 20, 1819, where he attended school. When twenty-one years of age he joined the French Army and served twelve years, the last ten as a musician. In 1852 he was joined in marriage to Miss Magdalena Schnelberger, and in 1854 left his native land to find a home in America. On landing at New York he went to Rochester, where he was engaged in a nursery two years; then removed to Illinois and engaged in farming thirteen miles south of Chicago. In 1869 he came to Iowa and bought land on section 23, Madison township, where he was engaged in raising grain and stock. In 1879 he built his present frame house, and two years later a barn. They have had eight children, seven of whom are now living – Philip, George, Lizzie, Hellena, Fred, Charlotte and Jacob. One child died in infancy.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 633