ROTHSTEIN, F. E.

ROTHSTEIN, POWELL, WITMAN

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 13:55:07

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

F. E. ROTHSTEIN, farmer and stock-raiser; P.O. Buena Vista; owns 644 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; son of Jonathan and Charlotte Rothstein; born Aug. 22, 1822, near Stockholm, Sweden; in the spring of 1843 emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business;in 1849, went by overland route to California, and engaged in mining and trading
there; in the spring of 1857, came to Scott Co., Iowa, and, in 1861, to where he now lives, and built a grist-mill, which he sold in 1876.
Married Elizabeth Powell, of El Dorado Co., Cal., in March, 1852; she was born in Pennsylvania in 1821, and died December, 1876. He again married Sarah J. Witman, in September, 1877; she was born in Scott Co. in August, 1843; have one daughter—Ellen E., now the wife of John Langseth, who is engaged in mercantile business at Buena Vista. Member Christian Church; Republican.