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H.C. Ehrlich
Boardman Twp.

H. C. Ehrlich, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1854, son of Frederick and Catherine (Fehr) Ehrlich, natives of Hesse, Germany, who emigrated to the United States in 1847, and located in Fairfield County, Ohio, where Frederick engaged in the milling business. In 1866 he came to Clayton County, where he engaged in farming for two years, and was then employed by the Elkader Mill Company for eight years, and is at present living in the county. The subject of this memoir ws educated in the schools of his native State; at the age of seventeen engaged in the milling business which he has followed since. In 1876 he married Roseltha A. Lobdell a daughter of Levi Lobdell, of Dububque. She ws born in Essex County, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1851. The fruit of this union is one child-- Florence Alida, born Sept. 28, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Ehrlich are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Elkader.

source: History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 655-656
transcribed by Sally Scarff and Marlene Chaney

 

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