F. W. Krause, deputy treasurer of Carroll County, has served in that capacity since July 4, 1884. He has been a resident of Carroll County since March, 1870, at which time he settled in Kniest Township. Mr. Krause was born in Austria in 1847, and came to his country in 1867. His father, Anton Krause, is still a resident of Austria. He received a liberal education in his native country, and was engaged in teaching for some time previous to coming to America. He came under a contract for teaching a private school at Detroit, Michigan, and after remaining there one year, came to Iowa and engaged in teaching in Winneshiek County. In another year he came to this county, locating at Mount Carmel, where he went into the grocery trade. He was also postmaster of that place for seven years. He was married in Winneshiek County to Elizabeth Schulte, born in Dubuque County, this State. They have had ten children, six of whom died in childhood. Their surviving children are — Anna, now engaged in teaching; Elizabeth, William and Walter; the latter was born in 1887. Politically Mr. Krause is a Democrat, and religiously a Catholic. His parents had but two children — Anton, a younger son, is at the old home in Austria.

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