GRABOSCH, MATHIAS

GRABOSCH, PORTER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

GRABOSCH, MATHIAS, retired; was born in Prussia Aug. 14, 1814; he was brought up and lived there until 1844, when he emigrated to America, and lived in Cincinnati and St. Louis ; he came to Ottumwa, Iowa, when there were only seventeen houses there ; he made a farm near there, lived six years there ; removed to Missouri, and was engaged in farming there twenty years, when he sold out and came to Ft. Madison ; since then has lived here ; he owns Concordia Hall and several other buildings; he had nothing when he began life. He married Lovina Porter July 19, 1874; she came to this State in 1852; they have two children— Matthias M. (born May 2, 1875), August F. (born Oct. 24, 1877).

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879