Mitchell County IA Archives News.....Reihold and Emma Dreher Golden  Wedding Anniversary October 18, 1909
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St. Ansgar Enterprise October 1909 October 18, 1909
Mr. and Mrs. Dreher were married in Hamburg, Germany, in 1859.  They came to 
this country during the time of the Civil War, residing in New York City for a 
number of years.  Here Mr. Dreher worked at his trade of cabinet making, being 
president of a builder's corporation.  Friends wrote to them of the advantages 
of the new country and about 1869 they moved to Osage where they resided for 
about five years, thence they moved onto the farm he now owns in this section 
of the country.

Mr. Dreher is seventy-seven years old while his wife is eight years his 
junior.  Both are enjoying average good health and are good for many years yet 
of married life.  They have had twelve children, six boys and six girls.  They 
have thirty-eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.  Of the children, 
all were present at the golden wedding but two daughters, one residing in 
Chicago and the other in Minneapolis and one son living in Minnesota.  

Not often do we find a family like this one.  Eleven children, (one girl 
having died when twelve years of age ) all honest, hardworking, upright young 
people.  Mrs. Dreher proved a stalwart, helpmate; the care of the children 
having been mostly hers.  Sickness entered the family, at one time nine 
children having been down with typhoid fever, and smallpox also found its way 
into the circle, besides the other ills customary to childhood days, but she 
braved the fight and now has good results as a reward for her troubles.

Mr. Dreher spoke in German to his children after dinner in which he recalled 
the years of married like, bringing tears to the eyes of many.  He told that, 
among other things, he had always tried to live an honest and true life, so 
that he could look every man in the face and be clean and pure from all wrong, 
and that he hoped his children might be able to say the same when they 
celebrate their golden weddings.

Additional Comments:
The Drehers were great-grandparents of the submitter.

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