Hugo Nus (b. 1836)

NUS, MEISGEIER

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 9/21/2002 at 14:47:51

Nus, Hugo, farmer, Section 25 (Fairfield township); PO Brush Creek; owns 340 acres, valued at $16,000; born in Germany, Sept. 4, 1836; came to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, where he married Henreicka Meisgeier April 9, 1855; she was born in Germany, Oct. 12, 1837; they came to this county in 1856, and to his present farm in 1863, where he has made extensive improvements. He is a Greenbacker and member of the Lutheran Church; their children are Emma, born Nov. 7, 1855; Mary, born April 9, 1857; Louis, born Sept. 14, 1858; Hermann, born Dec. 9, 1859; Caroline, born April 9, 1861; Charles, born Aug. 14, 1862; Louise, born Feb. 28, 1863; Minnie, born Sept. 16, 1866; Ernest, born Sept. 12, 1868; August, born Sept. 26, 1870; Alma, born Aug. 26, 1872; Henry, born Sept. 9, 1874; Flora, born Aug. 4, 1876; one child died in infancy.

Page 612 & 613, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"