Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Krause, F 1829 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

F. KRAUSE occupies a prominent and worthy place among the thrifty, well-to-do 
agriculturists of Will County, and his well-managed farm in Channahon Township 
attests to his skill and success as a farmer. Our subject was born in the 
Province of Bradenburg, about eighty miles east of Berlin, Germany, November 
2, 1829. He was there reared and received excellent educational advantages, 
his father desiring him to attend college. Our subject did not care for that, 
however, as his ambition lay in another direction, and shortly after his 
marriage, in 1856, to Miss Hattie Sabath, he came to America to try his 
fortunes in this land of promise. He first went to Milwaukee and from there to 
Watertown, Wis., where he was actively engaged in farming for eight years. In 
1864 he took a trip to Jefferson City, Mo., to survey the country with a view 
to locating in that vicinity. He lived there a year but as it was during the 
war he found it not a very agreeable abiding place and wished to move where he 
could secure greater freedom. He was a member of the militia, and while 
serving he was taken seriously ill, and as soon as able came to Joliet and was 
sick there for several months, but under the skillful care of Dr. Hays he 
recovered in the spring and then went on a farm on the same section where he 
now lives, renting it for awhile. In 1868 his wife bought twenty acres of land 
which they still own. But he did not think it sufficient for a farm, and in 
1870 he bought the eighty acres adjoining, on which he has built up a roomy 
and substantial home. His house and barn are the result of his own handiwork, 
as he was always very proficient in the use of tools, and while living in 
Missouri followed the trade of a carpenter. After coming here Mr. Krause had 
the misfortune to lose his wife, as she died after giving birth to their only 
daughter, Minnie, who is now the wife of John Hobner, of Jackson Township. Our 
subject was again married, taking for his wife Miss Sophia Fritz, of 
Watertown, Wis., and she has been a faithful helpmate to him. She came from 
the same part of Germany as himself, originally. They have no children of 
their own, but two of Mrs. Krause's neices have a home with them, Alvina and 
Lena Druham, children of Mrs. Krause's sister. Mr. Krause is a very 
intelligent gentleman and is well posted in all the current events of the day. 
He and his wife are whole-souled, kind-hearted people, and their pleasant 
home, about eight miles from Joliet, is the seat of true hospitality. Although 
of foreign birth, Mr. Krause takes a patriotic interest in his adopted country 
and is a Republican in politics, his experience with the Democratic party 
having been such as to make him lose confidence in its methods from the start. 
He says, while in Milwaukee, when Buchanan was running for the Presidency, the 
Democratic politicians tried to make him vote in the Sixth Ward, although he 
was not a resident of that part of the city and was not, in fact, a legal 
voter, not having obtained his naturalization papers. Another German asked him 
why he would not vote, and remarked that he had voted six times that day and 
got a glass of beer each time. When Lincoln was the Presidential candidate, 
our subject was a legal voter and was at that time working for a Democrat. 
Both being busy in the cornfield they paired off, each agreeing not to vote. 
Towards evening his employer made an excuse to go to the house, and there got 
on a swift horse, rode to town and voted just before the polls closed, thus 
cheating Mr. Krause out of his vote. His personal contact with the same party 
during his stay in Missouri, in the excitement during the war, only served to 
strengthen his prejudice against it.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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