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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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RABE, FREDERICK W., saloon, 835 State street, between 8th and 9th; residence same. He was born in Ampt Hepen, Kreis Bilefeld, Prussia, in Sept. 1828 and emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, La., with his wife and one child, in 1851, coming direct to Quincy, Ills., and shortly afterward received a position in Comstock’s foundry which he held for seventeen years. In 1861, while temporarily at work in Van Doorn’s saw mill, he had the misfortune to lose his right arm. In 1868 he opened his present large place. He married Miss Sophia Wismann in Hepen, Europe, in the fall of 1849. She was born in the same place where she married, in 1832. Three children: Yetta, aged 25 years; Anna aged 22 years; and Emma, aged 16 years. Religion, Lutheran. Politics, Democrat. Property, real and personal, valued at $5000.
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