HEER, FRANK

HEER, SCHOLING

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

HEER, FRANK, general merchant, dealer in dry goods and groceries ; was born in Prussia, March 20, 1839 ; when 16 years of age, he emigrated to America in 1855; came to Iowa and settled in Fort Madison in June, the same year ; he learned the trade of moulder and worked at it for seven years ; he has been enaged in the mercantile business for the past eight years. He married Miss Wilmena Scholing, from Germany, in August, 1868 ; they have five children—Lawrence, George, Frank, Therese and Mary ; they have lost two sons.

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879