HENRY PELZER
Henry Pelzer came to Cass county and entered land on section 9, Noble township, in the fall of 1869, and located on it in 1870. He was born in Germany in 1841. In 1842, his parents came to America, locating in Erie county, New York. In 1857, he removed to DuPage county, Illinois, where he remained four years, and then farmed in Morgan and Bureau counties until removing to this county, in 1870. He was married, in 1870, to Sophia Wohlenhaupt. They have seven children...George, William, Caroline, Emma, Frank, Lewis, Emil and May.
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. 668.
