Roth, Peter

ROTH, MILLER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:47:50

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

ROTH, PETER—Deep River Twp—pg 742-3. Section 1, P.O. Deep River. Was born May 30, 1830, in Bingen on the Rhine, where he was raised on a farm, and educated. He came to the United States in the spring of 1854, landing in New York City, where he remained two months, with his wife and one child, then went to Ohio and farmed for two years within four miles of Cleveland. He then immigrated to Iowa, and rented a farm for the next five years, and bought his present place in 1869. He married February 26, 1852, Margaret Miller, who was born in Bingen, June 27, 1832. Their children are: Elizabeth (born October 30, 1852; married February 14, 1871, to Adam Fisher), Henry (born September 2, 1854), Catharina (born May 23, 1859; died April 1, 1860), George (born January 27, 1861), Anna Mary (born April 12, 1863), Peter (born June 3, 1865), Charles (born March 5, 1867), Margaret (born January 27, 1870), Charlotte Minnie (born February 14, 1872) and Wm. M. (born May 19, 1874). Mr. Roth owns 158 acres of good land in good farming condition, and ten acres of timber. He is serving his township as school director and treasurer, and road supervisor.