PETERS, JACOB

PETERS, SCHNIEDER, DIEDRICH

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 14:53:20

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

PETERS, JACOB, of the firm of Peters & Bernhard, proprietors of the Potowonock Mills ; born in Bavaria, Germany, Oct. 26, 1815; he came to America in 1834 ; lived in Ohio until 1841, when he came to Iowa; arrived in Lee Co. Nov. 11, 1841, and began improving a farm; in 1847, he came to Fort Madison and went to brick making, and was afterward selling and collecting for an agricultural implement house in Quincy, until 1852, when he went to California, crossed the plains, and remained there engaged in mining, storekeeping, hotel and brewing business, until he returned, in 1859. He engaged in the bakery business in 1863, with Mr. Bernhard ; in 1868, they built their large mill, and since then have been engaged in the milling business, and they do the largest business of the kind done here. He married Elizabeth Schnieder from Germany, in 1843 ; they have two children—Charles H. and Katie Sophia, now Mrs. Diedrich ; 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