Ehret, William

EHRET, LYNK

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/5/2013 at 06:55:37

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

EHRET, WILLIAM—Deep River Twp—pg 726-27. Section 30, P.O. Tilton. His parents were natives of Germany, and born in Baden, but were married in this country. His father still lives, and is eighty years old. William was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1833; was raised on a farm, and educated in a German school. When sixteen, his father gave him money to travel with, and he went pretty much everywhere, winding up in Illinois, where he went into the nursery business for five years. In the fall of 1859 he emigrated to his present place, where he was prospered. He helped to build the first and all other school-houses ever built in his township. He married in Bloomington, Illinois, on the 22d of August, 1859, Miss Catharine C. Lynk, of New Rutland, Illinois, who was born in Columbia county, New York, April 4, 1838. They have nine children: Mary E. (born May 13, 1860), Frank A. (born April 5, 1862), Charles H. (born February 20, 1864), Fred W. (born May 5, 1866), George W. (born April 29, 1868), Edward E. (born November 10, 1870), Curtis J. (born March 1, 1873), Emma E. (born December 20, 1874) and Anna Lillian (born February 4, 1877). He owns 317 acres, and is out of debt.