FREDERICK STOODT
Frederick Stoodt, one of the old settlers of this township, came here in the summer of 1856, and on the 24th of August, of that year, purchased the claim of Charles Jackson, on the southeast quarter of section 7, where he is still living. Mr. Stoodt is a native of Germany, and was born on the 1st of October, 1813. He came to the United States in June, 1847, and located in Richland county, Ohio. From there he removed to Allen county, in the same State, and from the latter to Cass county, and settled as above. In 1863, Mr. Stoodt and his family went to Colorado, and engaged in mining and was quite successful. Returned to the farm in 1865. His wife was Mary Koheiser, who was born in the same town in Germany as her husband, on the 1st of February, 1821. They have three sons, all residents of the township.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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. 792.
