John Pitzenberg

PITZENBERG, RASENBECK

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 22:35:36

Pitzenberg, John, propr. hotel, Section 7 (Auburn township), PO Old Mission; born in Austria, in 1841 and came to this country in 1850, and settled in Stephenson Co., Illinois, where he resided until 1855, when he came to this State and setted in Windsor Co., where he lived until 1864, when he came to this county and settled on his present place; has a fine hotel, and doing a prosperous business. Married Mary Rasenbeck; she was born in Bohemia; have five children living --- Joseph, Rosy, Mary, Annie and Catherine; lost two children --- John died in 1872 and John, second, in 1877; are members of the Church.

Page 756, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"