Bliesenick, August F.

BLIESENICK, BIDDLEMAN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/29/2011 at 13:43:01

History of Poweshiek County, Iowa (1880)

BLIESENICK, AUGUST F.--Section 3, P.O. Deep River. His ancestors were all Germans. His father was born in Prussia, about 1796, and a weaver, and died about 1867. August was one of nine children, and born eight miles north of Berlin, Prussia, August 8, 1827. He crossed the Atlantic in 1854, and after being in New York City one year, went to Pennsylvania, where he remained nearly three years, when he moved to Ohio, and worked at his trade, tailoring, in Cleveland, until September, 1864, when he emigrated to his present place, which he bought in 1861. He married, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1857, Levina Biddleman, of Pittson, Pennsylvania, who was born in Warren county, New Jersey, May 24, 1820. The result of their marriage has been as follows: Augusta E. (born January 21, 1858), Leonard (born November 29, 1859, deceased), Romelia J. (born September 28, 1861) and George R. (born May 25, 1863). Mr. B. owns 104 acres of good land, including ten acres of timber, and he is an honnest, unassuming gentleman, and hard-working farmer.