Veit & Catharine Schmitt

SCHMITT, HOFNER

Posted By: Cheryl Moonen (email)
Date: 1/13/2014 at 16:08:39

VEIT SCHMITT, farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Dubuque; born Feb. 2, 1810, in Alsace, France; in 1846 he came to Dubuque Co., where he has since lived; there were but two brick houses in Dubuque when he first came here; he owns 240 acres of land; he has been four years School Treasurer, and twenty years Township Treasurer. Married Catharine Hofner, in November 1845; she was born in 1813 in Alsace, France; they have four children- Sophia, Eliza, Antony and Louis.

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