Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Cloidt, Frederick G 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Frederick G. Cloidt, who is engaged in the grain business at Beecher and also 
deals in live stock, is numbered among the men of enterprise whose efforts are 
an element in the business prosperity and growth of the village. He is also 
serving as treasurer of the village and is accounted one of its leading men. 
His birth occurred in Kankakee county, Illinois, in 871. His father, James 
Cloidt, was born in Germany and is now living in Kankakee county at the age of 
seventy-three years. He came to the United States when eighteen years of age 
and worked for a year in Pennsylvania coal mines for fifty cents a day. He 
spent three years in the mines and in 1857 came to the middle west, purchasing 
eighty acres of land in Yellowhead township, Kankakee county. In 1875 he left 
the farm after adding two hundred acres more to the place. He then removed to 
Beecher and in connection with Charles Beseke entered the grain trade, in 
which he met with immediate success. After three years he bought out his 
partner and conducted the business alone until 1897, when his son Frederick 
succeeded him. The father then removed to Sollitt, where he also owned an 
elevator. This he sold in 1902 and he is now living retired in Kankakee 
county, having in former years acquired a handsome competence which makes rest 
from further labor possible. He is the owner of four hundred and sixty-seven 
acres of land, of which one hundred and sixty-seven is situated a mile across 
the Indiana line. Mr. Cloidt is a man of energy and indomitable perseverance 
and the secret of his success lies entirely in his earnest labor, for he had 
not a dollar when he landed on American soil. In politics he is independent. 
He married Louisa Klein, also a native of Germany and now living at the age of 
sixty-eight years. She came to the United States in 1857 and soon afterward 
was married. The following children graced this union: Frederick, of this 
review; Frank, of Grant Park, who is bookkeeper in a large store; Louise, the 
wife of J. B. Berg, who lives across the line in Indiana; Mary, the wife of 
Peter Engelland, one of the proprietors of a department store at Grant Park; 
Teresa, the deceased wife of Jesse Bright, a banker at Flora, Indiana; and 
Lizzie, at home. Frederick G. Cloidt, reared upon the home farm, attended the 
district schools and also pursued his education in Beecher. He worked for his 
father, who had three elevators, one at Beecher, another at Sollitt and a 
third at Martinton. He was thus associated with the grain trade until he 
became his fathers successor. He has since continued in this line and handles 
a large amount of gram at Beecher, carrying on a prosperous business. He is 
also a stockholder in the First National Bank of this place and a stockholder 
of the Eagle Lake Tile Works. He likewise deals in cattle and hogs and is 
connected with other business enterprises, his keen discrimination and sound 
judgment proving important factors in their successful conduct. Whatever he 
undertakes he carries forward to sueeessful completion, working toward the 
highest degree of perfection attainable, and in his business has gained 
gratifying prosperity. Mr. Cloidt was married in 1896 to Miss Mamie Helen 
Bathfnhr, who was born at Grant Park, Illinois, in 1871, and is a daughter of 
Albert and Helen Bathfuhr, a furniture dealer, cabinet-maker and undertaker. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cloidt are now parents of a son and two daughters: Joseph, 
Catherine and Mary. They are members of the German Lutheran church and Mr. 
Cloidt holds membership relations with the Masons, the Modern Woodmen and the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he is independent. He has served 
as a member of the village board for nine years and at the present time is 
village treasurer. In community affairs he takes an active and helpful part 
and his labors have been directly beneficial and far-reaching. He has made for 
himself an honored place in business circles and his name carries weight on 
commercial paper. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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