V. J. WEIRICH
V. J. Weirich, came with his parents in 1869, and received from his father a farm on section 15, in 1870. V.J. Weirich, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Weirich, was born in New York, on the 16th of October, 1846, and when quite young his parents moved to Pennsylvania, and remaining there a short time, they moved to Illinois, and settled in La Salle county. He made his home with his parents until 1869, when he came to Cass county, Iowa, and improved forty acres of land on section 13, Noble township. V.J. was married in 1870, to Miss Caroline Knoke, by whom he has had four children...George Edward, Albert, Emma and Bessie. In 1884 Mr. Weirich sold forty acres of land which his father gave him, and purchased his pleasant farm on which he now lives.
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. 666.
