Pahre, H. F.

PAHRE, BARTLEAK

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Date: 11/29/2008 at 16:39:17

PAHRE, H. F.
Farmer; Sec. 4; P. O. Galesburg; owns 246 acres of land, valued at $8,000; born in Hanover, Germany, Aug. 26, 1820; he emigrated to America in 1845, coming at once to St. Louis, Mo., where he lived over a year. He then enlisted, in 1847, in the 3d Missouri Mounted Volunteers, Co. B, for service in the Mexican war; was engaged in the battle of Vera Cruz, and honorably discharged in Oct., 1848, when he returned to St. Louis, and stayed until the Spring of 1849, and returned to Germany, but stayed only a short time, and came back to America, and in December, 1849, set out for California via the Isthmus, where he arrived in the Spring of the following year, and was engaged in mining most of the time until the Summer of 1854, when he returned to St. Louis, and in September of that year, came to Iowa and purchased the land on which he now lives. He then went back to St. Louis, and a few months after, he married Wilhelmina BARTLEAK, who is also a native of Hanover, the next Spring they moved to their new home in Jasper Cp., where they have since resided; their children are William, Huldah (now Mrs. ANDREWS), Fred, Edward, Theresa, Mina and Louisa. ~ Elk Creek Township Biographies "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)