LUDWIG

The Breda Centennial Book, Older Days Renewed, page 81

Joachim (James) Ludwig (1846-1922) was one of the first five settlers of Kniest Township. Joachim was born in Beckereide, Germany and came to America with his parents at the age of sixteen. They settled at Dubuque and resided there for six years.

In 1860 he came to Kniest Township with four other men and homesteaded on the farm now owned by his grandson, Clarence Ludwig. He lived on this same farm for fifty-three years.

On February 2, 1873 Mr. Ludwig married Barbara Legler in Wisconsin, and ten children were born to this union. Seven passed away at a young age. Those remaining were Mike, Albert, and Mrs. Ted Snyder. His first wife died May 4, 1892, and in the fall of that year he married Mrs. Henrietta Feldman.