Valentine Schaub

SCHAUB

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 1/13/2006 at 22:42:15

Valentine Schaub resides on section 36, Kensett township, Worth Co., Iowa, where he settled in 1876. He was born in Canada Dec. 2, 1842, where he lived until he was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to Winneshiek Co., Iowa. Here he bought 120 acres of land, which he farmed for twelve years, and then settled on his present home, in Worth county, where he is engaged in raising stock and all kinds of grain. He was married in March, 1865, to Caroline Suhring, by whom he has six children— Ida, Clara, Edmund, Oscar, Linda and Amanda. Mr. Schaub and family are members of the Lutheran Church. His father, Michael Schaub, was a native of Germany, and came to Canada when he was a young man. He married Anna Ruffridge, by whom he had fourteen children (Valentine being the third), eleven of whom are still living. The mother still lives in Canada; the father was killed in 1876, in Canada, by being caught in a water-wheel in a mill. Mrs. Schaub's father, John Suhring, was born in Germany in 1808; came to Canada in 1855, where he now lives. Her mother, Doretha Ohm, was also born in Germany in 1812 and died in Canada in 1870.

Source: History or Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Page 784