Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . arned the carpenters trade andworked at it for one year before coming toAmerica with his parents, when he was a boy offifteen. He was employed at his trade in Cincin-nati the first summer that he lived in this country,and then went to Clayton County, Iowa, with hisfather and mother, and worked at his trade therein the summers and on his fathers farm in wintersuntil he was twenty-one. He then went with histwo brothers, Frederick and Louis, to St. Paul,Minn., where they set up a shop and became con-tractors and builders. He continue
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . arned the carpenters trade andworked at it for one year before coming toAmerica with his parents, when he was a boy offifteen. He was employed at his trade in Cincin-nati the first summer that he lived in this country,and then went to Clayton County, Iowa, with hisfather and mother, and worked at his trade therein the summers and on his fathers farm in wintersuntil he was twenty-one. He then went with histwo brothers, Frederick and Louis, to St. Paul,Minn., where they set up a shop and became con-tractors and builders. He continued in St. Paulfive years, and made a small fortune at his then went back to Clayton County, Iowa, pur-chased a farm of eighty acres, and was there mar-ried, in 1865, to Miss Wilhelmina, diiughter ofChristian and Elizabeth (Lindekul) Severin, nativesof Saxony, Prussia, who came to America withtheir family in 1856. Mr. Severin was a wagon-maker by trade, but when he settled in Guttenberg,Clayton Co., Iowa, he bought a farm and worked it. ^?-?-4«. Residence of OS. Lamb. Creek Precimct.
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