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PETER FREUDENBERGER, a native of Bavaria, Germany, and one of the leading and substantial farmers of Campbell Township, was born on the 17th day of February, 1837. He is the youngest in a family of seven children born to Andrew and Mary (Shafer) Freudenberger, who were also natives of Germany, where they lived and died in May, 1860, Peter, the subject of this sketch, concluded that the United States with its free institutions was the place where a poor man should live, and where he could bring up his family properly, and accordingly came to this country with his young wife, and although they began life poor they have by diligence secured a good home. Mr. Freudenberger is the owner of a good farm of 179 acres; is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife belong to the German Lutheran Church. He was married in his native country March 18, 1860, to Caroline Albert, daughter of Mathew and Catharine (Kriegbaum) Albert, and by her is the father of five children: Elizabeth, John W., Philip, Mary C. and Caroline M. Mr. Freudenberger and his brother Adam, who came to this country and settled near Millersburg in 1856, and who died two years later, are the only members of their family that ever came to America.