MICHAEL LETZ
Michael Letz came in 1870, and located on section 15, where he has since improved a good farm.
Michael Letz was born in Alsace, which then belonged to France, November 20, 1819. He attended school until fourteen years of age. When fifteen years old he went to Strasburg and lived with a physician, driving his carriage seven years, and afterwards worked at a hotel. He lived in that city sixteen years, and then returned to his native village and in 1854 came to America. He located in Ottawa, LaSalle county, Illinois. Three years later he bought land in Eagle township of the same county, and lived there until 1870. He was married in 1841 to Elenora Loux. They have had five children -- August, Henry, Matilda, Anna, and Louisa. Their son, August, enlisted in the Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry, was wounded at Jackson, Mississippi, taken prisoner and died in Libby prison. Mrs. Letz died September 7, 1878. Mr. Letz was again married April 18, 1881, to Mrs. Mary Rupp, a native of Baden, Germany, and widow of John F. Rupp. She had, by the first marriage, eight children...John Fred., Albert, Julius, Robert, Amelia, Mary, Barbara and Fredericka.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 669-670.
