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         FREDERIC GALL, a farmer residing on section 22, Grand View Township, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1845. His parents, Jacob and Barbara (Weik) Gall, who were also natives of Baden, determined to make America their future home, and so in the autumn of 1846 they embarked from Bremen in a sailing-vessel, reaching the harbor of New York after a stormy voyage of fifty-six days. They immediately continued their journey until reaching Cincinnati, Ohio, where they took up their residence. In that city the father, who was a stonemason, built the first water-works, and there his death occurred from an attack of cholera in 1849, when about thirty-five years of age. The mother and our subject were also stricken with that disease, but both survived, Mrs. Gall now being a resident of Grand View Township.

In the public schools of the city of Cincinnati Frederic received his literary education, and at an early age entered a store as salesman, continuing in that employment until his removal to Louisa County in 1867. Two years later he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Elizabeth Hahn, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Schneider) Hahn, who were born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, but came to America, becoming residents of Louisa County in 1848. Settling for a short time in the village of Grand View, Mr. Hahn subsequently purchased 120 acres of partly improved land on section 16, Grand View Township, where the worthy couple yet reside.

After his marriage Mr. Gall rented a farm for about a year in Grand View Township, but from 1871 to 1874 had charge of the poor farm. He has made several purchases of land at different times in this county, first buying forty-two acres partly improved, and next a 30-acre tract of improved land, six years later forty acres of raw prairie land partly fenced, and in 1886, forty-five acres of timber land, which aggregate 167 acres, and comprises one of the best farms in the township, upon which is a most comfortable residence, a good barn and other out-buildings, and the best grades of stock, including Short-horn cattle, Norman and Clyde horses. In the year 1886 Mr. Gall opened a store of general merchandise in the village of Grand View, where he was also Assistant Postmaster, but on the 20th of June, 1887, incurred a serious loss by fire, the entire stock and building being burned, the loss amounting to almost $1,900. His home was on the farm at that time, and since that date he has given his entire attention to the cultivation of his land. Politically, he is a Republican, and though never seeking or desiring public office, has been elected to the position of Road Supervisor, and for the past five years has been School Director. To every enterprise which has for its object the public good he always gives his earnest support, and to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Grand View, of which he and his wife are members, he is a liberal contributor and an active worker.