VonStrohe, Fred

VONSTROHE

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Date: 7/30/2013 at 13:55:58

FRED VON STROHE, clergyman Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Monticello; P.O. Monticello; was born in Jonesville, Ind., in 1856; received his education at Fort Wayne and St. Louis; was at Fort Wayne six years and at St. Louis three; graduated at Concordia Theological Seminary in 1879, and is now in his first settled ministerial work. His parents live in Indiana. He has a fine field for labor where he now is; the church was built in 1877; the membership is about seventeen; they are old settlers, and are among the best farmers of the county. Mr. Von Strohe is not married; boards with Mr. John Null, and has the parsonage for his sleeping apartments, library and home; the parsonage was built before the church, and the upper part was used for church purposes for some time before thc church was built.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 636.