Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Stecher, Gottfried C 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Stecher, Gottfried C. - The German element is strong in many communities in 
the United States and those forming it are universally respected for they have 
the characteristics which make for success and eminent respectability. One of 
the highly esteemed German born residents of Grundy County in Gottfried C. 
Stecher of Morris, who was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, October 18, 1866, 
where his parents lived and died.

In the fall of 1888, Mr. Stecher arrived at Elgin, Ill., having emigrated from 
his native land, and found employment among the farmers in the vicinity, and 
for four years was thus employed, and then, for some years, he worked in a 
laundry at Elgin, following which he was employed at Palatine, in Cook County, 
Ill., for a year, when he came to Morris. He bought the only laundry in this 
city that was conducted by a white man, and is still engaged in operating it. 
Employment is given seven people, and the equipment is thoroughly modern and 
well fitted to turn out the best class of work .Mr. Stecher's success is all 
the more remarkable for while he was well educated in his native land, his 
only schooling in this country was given him during the three months he 
attended the academy at Elgin.

On June 90, 1897, Mr. Stecher was married at Elgin, to Lydia Ollman, born at 
Milwaukee, Wis., a daughter of William and Caroline (Runke) Ollman, natives of 
Prussia, Germany, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Stecher became 
the parents of two children: Esther and Raymond. Mr. Stecher is a steward in 
the Methodist Church, of which he is a consistent member. Fraternally, he 
belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America of Morris, and the Court of Honor of 
Elgin. In politics he is a Republican, but he has never aspired to office. He 
has shown much enterprise, and steadily forged ahead until he became a 
prosperous business man.

pages 903-904

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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