George Schreck, 1899 Biography

SCHRECK, MUHR

Posted By: David Reineke (email)
Date: 3/3/2007 at 19:07:41

I translated the following biography from Der Carroll Demokrat, a German-language newspaper published in Carroll, Iowa, between about 1874 and 1920. It was originally published in a special 25th Anniversary Edition of the paper on Friday, 20 September 1899. Words in quotations are original. Any information in brackets or notes at the end are my own explanations. It reads as follows:

George Schreck

Mr. George Schreck, who appears with his respected wife in a photo, was born on 4 October 1863 in Alkhofen, Lower Bavaria. After he had finished his school years and had received First Holy Communion, he took up farming and worked on a farm. At the age of 17 years, he immigrated to the United States of North America and settled first in New York, where he found employment in a bakery. He then worked for a time in a gardening business, and then he turned toward the West and settled in Carroll County, Iowa, where he hired out on a farm in Pleasant Valley Township. He worked here steadily for seven years and then purchased a 160-acre farm in Newton Township. On 21 November 1885, he married Miss Theresia Muhr, a respected young lady, who was also born near Hofkirchen, in Lower Bavaria, on 18 February 1864. The family still lives on the above farm today, which he has since equipped with equipped with good buildings, and just this spring he built a fine, large wing onto his residence. Mr. Schreck and his wife are honest German-Americans and are respected by all their acquaintances. This happy marriage has produced six children named: George, Johann, Frank, Ludwig, Theresia, and Maria. There is another member of the family, and that is the old Mr. Schreck, the father of Mr. Schreck, an elderly man of 80 years who intends to bring his twilight years to a close with his son.