Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Rausch, Peter 1836 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  PETER RAUSCH, farmer, P. O. Hutsonville, is a native of Grosherzochtum,
Hesse-Darmstardt, Germany, born August 1, 1836. His father, Peter Rausch, was
born in 1808, and is the owner of a small farm in Germany, where he is now
residing, engaged in farming and weaving. His mother, Katirina (Steiger) Rausch,
was born in 1811, and died in Germany, her native place, July 4, 1877. She was
the mother of seven children, of whom six are now living, and four residents of
America. Peter Rausch was raised on a farm, and at an early age learned the
weaver's trade. His education was received from the Lutheran schools of his
native place. When he was eighteen years of age, he borrowed enough money to pay
his passage to America, from Havre to New York, where he landed May 24, 1855,
after twenty-one days in a sailing vessel. He located in Altoona, Penn., where
he was employed to work on a farm, for $10 per month, but by pleasing his
employer was given $1 extra per month through harvest. After six months he gave
up farming and engaged in a saw and grist mill, continuing in the same business
until 1856, when he went to Johnstown, and there remained about one month,
breaking iron in a foundry. He then went to Dayton, Ohio, and worked in a mill
for three years. In 1859, he rented a saw-mill and six acres of land; he ran the
mill and tended the land, upon which he raised tobacco, and in this business he
was met with fair success, and in 1865 he had accumulated enough means to buy
him a farm of eighty acres of unimproved land in Crawford County, Ill. He
immediately removed his family to the farm, and by his hard work has succeeded
in accumulating a good property. He is now the owner of 200 acres of good land.
He was married in Dayton, Ohio, in 1858, to Miss Rosena Weld, a native of
Konigreich, Wurtemberg, Germany. She was born February 25, 1835, and died June
11, 1882, after a sickness of eight weeks. Mr. Rausch has had many difficulties
to contend with in his life. He commenced life in America as a laboring man, to
pay back the money he had borrowed to get to America, and has since worked hard;
and by honesty, industry and economy he has accumulated a good property, and a
worthy name and reputation. He has the following children: Maggie, Willie, Mrs.
Barbara (Greenlee) Steel, and Emma. Mr. Rausch is a Democrat in politics, and a
member of the German Lutheran Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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