SCHMIDT, Peter

SCHMIDT, GREBE

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 11/24/2001 at 02:04:21

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HAMPSHIRE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 722-725

PETER SCHMIDT, hotel-keeper and butcher; P. O. Lyons; owns two acres of land; he was born in Schleswig, Germany, Jan. 28, 1843, where he was educated; in 1866, he emigrated to the United States and located in Clinton Co., Iowa, where
he has lived since. He married Catherine Grebe, a native of Schleswig, in Clinton Co., Dec 16, 1868, and had four children; two are living -- Otto and
Erich; he and his family were raised in the German Lutheran faith; in politics, Independent; he was a poor man when he started in Clinton Co., and now has a fine homestead, a good, paying business, and a fortune of from $1,500 to $2,000; his hotel is known as the "Two-Mile House."