John DREIS (b. 1842)

DREIS, PERRY

Posted By: Linnie Howell (email)
Date: 5/30/2005 at 21:14:21

DREIS, John, farmer, Secs 4 and 5; P. O. Old Mission; born in Luxemberg, Germany, in 1842. Married Mary Perry in 1866; she was born in Germany in 1844; have seven children - Michael, Nicholas, John, Daniel, Annie, Francis and John Henry. Lost one child - Theodore; came to this country when 4 years old with his father, Daniel, and settled in Ozaukee Co., Wis., where his father died; also lived in Michigan and Illinois and settled on his present estate in 1874; has a farm of 125 acres valued at $25 per acre. Both members of the Catholic Church.

1878 History of Fayette County Iowa - Auburn Township
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