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         JACOB SULZBERGER, a farmer residing on section 6, Port Louisa Township, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1823, and is the eldest of a family of eight children, who were born to Jacob and Elizabeth (Schafer) Sulzberger, who were also natives of Baden. In their native country the parents resided until their death, the father there following the occupation of rope-making.

Our subject received his education in his native land and there learned the trade of a baker, which he followed a great many years. At about the age of twenty-five years he resolved to try his fortunes in the New World, and set sail in the spring of 1848 from Havre on the sailing-vessel “Chesapeake,” after a rough voyage of six weeks landing at New York. Going to Buffalo, he worked at his trade for a year and then emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he . . .

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. . . again secured employment at his chosen profession for the following year. In 1850 he came to Louisa County, Iowa, and was here engaged at farm labor until the spring of 1851, when he returned to Cincinnati during the high water. He made that his home until 1860, working at his trade as a baker.

At Piqua, Ohio, in 1854, Mr. Sulzberger and Elizabeth Kiefer, a native of Baden, were united in marriage. They began their domestic life in Cincinnati, but removed to Louisa County, Iowa, in 1860, Mr. Sulzberger working upon a farm. In 1867 he purchased forty acres of timber land on section 6, Port Louisa Township, but it had no improvements. He has added to his original purchase until he now has sixty acres of fine, arable land on section 6, and also owns 221 on the island. In 1855, when the cholera was epidemic in Cincinnati, Mrs. Sulzberger was stricken and died, leaving one child, John J.

In 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Sulzberger was again united in marriage, Elizabeth Bachet, a native of Baden, becoming his wife. Five children were born of this union, two of whom are living, Rosa and Fred, who are still at home. The other children were: Lizzie, who died at the age of one year and nine months; George, who died at the age of nineteen years, nine months and eight days, on the 2d of April, 1880; Catherine, who died in 1864, at the age of one year. Mr. Sulzberger is pleasantly situated about six miles from Wapello, and is one of the highly respected citizens of the township.