. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . JOLIET, I PAST AND PKESENT OF WILL COUNTY. 611 of age accompanied his parents, Weigand and Mar-garetha (Keim) Sehring, on their emigration tothe new world in 1847. The Sehring family isone of prominence in the German-American citi-zenship of Will county. The parents settled inFrankfort township and the father turned hisattention to agricultural pursuits, which he fol-lowed until 1854, when he removed with his fam-ily to Joliet and established and conducted a had served as a soldier in the war of 1813 inGermany. In spite of the fact that Fr
. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . JOLIET, I PAST AND PKESENT OF WILL COUNTY. 611 of age accompanied his parents, Weigand and Mar-garetha (Keim) Sehring, on their emigration tothe new world in 1847. The Sehring family isone of prominence in the German-American citi-zenship of Will county. The parents settled inFrankfort township and the father turned hisattention to agricultural pursuits, which he fol-lowed until 1854, when he removed with his fam-ily to Joliet and established and conducted a had served as a soldier in the war of 1813 inGermany. In spite of the fact that Fred Sehring had onlyeight months instruction in the schools of Amer-ica, by diligent application he acquired a goodEnglish education and in early life laid the foun-dation of the broad knowledge that proved so help-ful to him in later years. He was a young manof twenty years when the family home was es-tablished in Joliet. Six years later, in 1860,he was appointed deputy clerk in the recordersoffice, rilling the position with marked capabilit
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