Blumer, Frederick

BLUMER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/25/2008 at 14:51:06

Frederick Blumer

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.174, Minden Twp.)
Frederick Blumer, farmer, P. O. Minden, was born in Canton Glarus, Switzerland, April 15, 1833. He is the son of Johannes and Susanna Blumer, both natives of Canton Glarus, Switzerland. His father was a miner, born in 1802, and died in Davenport, this State, in 1853. His mother died in the same place in 1860. They had three children, all boys. Our subject received his education in his native land, and afterward worked in a slate mine in the same country. He came to Davenport, Scott County, this State, in 1850, and was engaged in shaving shingles by hand in a factory in that city. He was married, in the same city, November 17, 1857, to Mary C. Frost, born in Germany in February 1842. She is the daughter of Peter Frost, who was born in Germany in 1800. In 1864, our subject enlisted in the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, Company C, Army of the Cumberland. He came to Minden Township, this county, in 1880, and purcahsed 200 acres of wild land at $12 per acre, all of which are now under cultivation. He afterward bought 120 acres at $13 per acre, fifty acres of which are now improved. His place contains a fine lot of buildings, and he engages in general farming. He has five children - Lena, Friedrich, Johannes, Peter and Heinrich - all of whom were born in the State. Our subject is a member of the United Workmen, and of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. In politics, he is an Independent.