Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Seek, Frederick 1843 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Frederick Seek, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born September 7, 1843, in Baden, 
Germany; is a son of Michael and Catharine Seek, natives of Germany. The 
parents came to Louisiana in 1853, where the father died, and the mother is 
living in La Salle County, Ill. Our subject worked upon a farm when quite 
young. Enlisted in Company C, Eighty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and 
remained in the service two years, a part of which time he was a sharpshooter. 
He was shot through the top of the skull. He helped to capture Mission Ridge, 
and was with Gen. Sheridan nearly one year. Was married October 27, 1866, to 
Louisa Colwell, and has six children - Lillie, Frederick, Willie, Minnie, 
Louisa and Arthur. He settled on his present farm of eighty acres in 1876; 
came to this county in 1868, and rented for several years of Cameron. He votes 
the Republican ticket.

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

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