Biographical Sketch of
Frederic Gratias

 

From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 307

Frederic Gratias bought land and located in Mitchell Co., Iowa, on sections 11 and 14, in Cedar township 97, in the year 1870. He was born in Germany March 1, 1820. He was married to Ernestine Fritchie in 1841, and had four children - Sidonia, Gustave, Hugo and Emil.

Mrs. Gratias died in 1863. He then married Hannah Glas, who died in 1867. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1869 with his children, where he remained a few months, then removed to his present home in Iowa.

His occupation from boyhood has been farming. Gustave, his first son, a native of Prussia, was born in 1846. He received a common school education, and when twenty-three years old with his father he emigrated to the United States. He lived at home until his marriage with Emma Grube, also a native of Prussia, in 1871, and settled on his present home on section 14. They are the parents of two children - Clare and Hugo.

 

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Submitted by Gordon Felland, March 2004