Wasser, Charles

WASSER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/27/2008 at 16:08:27

Charles Wasser

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.221, Pleasant Twp.)
Charles Wasser, farmer, P. O. Avoca, is a native of Wurtenberg, Germany, born January 19, 1827, and is a son of Erhart and Rosina (Stein) Wasser, also natives of Wurtenburg, Germany. Erhart Wasser was born in 1794; was a shoemaker by trade, and died in Pennsylvania in 1857; his wife, who was born in 1802, died at Blue Island, Ill., in 1868; they had three children, two boys and one girl. Subject received his education in Wurtemburg, Germany and learned the shoemaker's trade in Germany. In 1853, he left his native country and came to the United States, locating at St. Clair, Penn., where he worked at his trade, and in 1871, came to Pleasant Township, bought eighty acres of land at $11 per acre, improved it and remained on the place two years. He then worked at his trade for three years, renting his farm meanwhile, and, at the end of that time, returned to the farm. In 1880, he bought eighty acres of improved land at $18.50 per acre, and carries on general farming. There is a good supply of living water on the farm, which is well adapted to stock-raising. Mr. Wasser has been Road Supervisor. In Germany, in 1851, he married Kate Anna Gebel, a native of Germany, born January 30, 1823, daughter of Elias and Katharina (Hiventhal) Gebel, natives of Germany, he born in 1790, she in 1798. Mr. Wasser was again married in Pennsylvania in 1857. He has three children - Lizzie, jacob and Conrad Philip. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics, is Republican. Mrs. Wasser is a member of the Reformed Church.