VALENTINE BUECHEL

BUECHEL, DAGENHARDT

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

Madison Township
(P.O. Fort Madison)

BUECHEL, VALENTINE, retired; was born in Prussia June 11, 1826, and educated there ; he emigrated to America in 1848, and went back to Prussia, but returned to America, came to Iowa and located in Fort Madison Aug. 19, 1850, and engaged in the grocery business; in 1851, he engaged in teaching, and continued until 1859, when he was elected to the State Senate and filled that office during two sessions; he has held office of Deputy Clerk of the Courts for two years, Deputy County Treasurer six years and also Deputy Recorder; he has held school offices for many years, and now holds office of City Alderman. He married Dorothea Dagenhardt, from Germany, in the fall of 1850; they have had ten children, only three survive—Mary R., Catharine A., Amelia C.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879