Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Schroeder, John C 1830 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

John C. Schroeder, farmer, P. O. Seneca, is a native of Mechlenburg-Schwerin, 
Germany, born October 8, 1830; raised and educated in Germany; came to the 
United States in 1858; landed at New York City, and came immediately to 
Marseilles, Ill. He lived in La Salle County for about five years, then 
settled in Vienna Township, Grundy County, where he now owns 200 acres of 
valuable improved farm land in Section 4; residence three miles west from 
Wauponsee Station. Our subject was married, in La Salle County, October 31, 
1863, to Miss Mary Schroeder, daughter of Christian and Eva Schroeder, of 
Germany. She was born January 1, 1833; they have a family of five children, 
one dead - Wilhelmina, born January 19, 1865; Caroline, December 19, 1869; 
Dorothea, April 29, 1872; Mary, February 17, 1875; also one son who died in 
infancy. The entire family are members of the German Lutheran Church. Mrs. 
Schroeder's father died in Grundy County, November 27, 1881. Her mother is now 
living with them in her seventy-third year. Mr. Schroeder is engaged in stock-
raising and general husbandry.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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