RISSER, JACOB

RISSER, SMITH

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 15:21:22

WEST POINT TOWNSHIP.

RISSER, JACOB, miller, Sec. 5 ; P. O. West Point ; a son of Daniel Risser, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, Aug. 25, 1784, and May 26, 1811, married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Smith ; she was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 28, 1786 ; having passed her wedded life in the same house in which she was born, she died in 1824, leaving a family of one son and three daughters ; with them the father came to America, and died at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1838 ; Mr. Risser, the only son, was born Dec. 12, 1815; at the age of 16, was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker ; served out his apprenticeship, and worked at jour work a few years; in 1841, he embarked in business for himself in Cleveland, Ohio, and on Dec. 8, 1842, he married Amelia M., daughter of John Miller, the account of whose murder appears in this volume; she was born near the city of Newburg, on the Danube, May 16, 1821, and with her parents emigrated to America when 21 years of age; in the spring of 1845, they emigrated to Lee Co., and settled on a farm southwest of West Point ; in 1854, came to their present place of residence near West Point, where he owns his residence, ninety acres of land and one-half interest in a mill, all valued at $6,700. Have six children — Daniel F., born at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1843, now a teacher at Summerfield, Ill. ; John, born Dec. 17, 1845, a farmer of Pleasant Ridge Tp. ; Jacob M., born Nov. 2, 1847, also a farmer of Pleasant Ridge Tp. ; Abraham, born Aug. 30, 1850, died Feb. 22, 1852 ; Mary A., born Dec. 7, 1853 ; Annie A., born March 22, 1858, died April 6, 1858.

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

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879