Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Langreder, Henry 1828 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

HENRY LANGREDER. 

This gentleman ranks among the enterprising farmers of Washington Township, 
owning a pleasant and well-improved farm of one hundred and twenty acres on 
section 34. It has been thirty years since he obtained a tract of unbroken 
prairie from the railroad company, and during this interim he has made of it a 
fruitful expanse where fields of waving grain take the place of the wild 
grasses which formerly covered it. The buildings are well constructed and 
sufficiently numerous and commodious to answer the purpose for which they were 
designed, and everything about the estate bears the appearance of order which 
those acquainted, with Mr, and Mrs, Langreder would expect. The parents of our 
subject were Detrick and Grace (Avers) Langreder, both of whom were born in 
Hanover, Germany, and the latter of whom died there. In October, 1848, the 
father, accompanied by his three children, set out for the United States, 
leaving Bremen on a sailing vessel which made a landing at New Orleans, La., 
after a tedious voyage of nine weeks and five days. The father and son worked 
about four months in the Southern metropolis to earn money with which to 
continue their journey, and finally the family reached Chicago, Ill. Two days 
after their arrival the father died, when somewhat past his three-score years 
of age. He and his wife belonged to the Lutheran Church and manifested in 
their daily walk and conversation the virtues which belong to the Christian 
religion. The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch was born in Hanover, 
Germany, July 24, 1828, and is the youngest member of the parental family. He 
was eleven years old when he lost his mother and about twenty when he bade 
good-by to his native land. His education was obtained in the Father-land 
under the excellent school laws which provide all German children with a fair 
share of school privileges. Besides himself, the only survivor of the parental 
household is a sister who is married and living in Minnesota. After the death 
of his father the young man went to California, where he spent some years in 
the mining regions with the varying success which usually attends such 
experiences. On returning to the States he resided in Cook County, Ill., three 
years and then, in 1860, became a resident of Will County. He was first 
married in Cook County to Miss Louisa Riesperkart, who was born in Germany and 
came to the United States when eighteen years old. She died at her home in 
Will County when yet in middle life leaving a large family to whom she had 
been a devoted mother. All her offspring are yet living and all are now 
married but two sons: William; Henry, married and lives in Beecher; Fred, 
married and lives in Beecher; Edward, Adolph, Louisa and Emma. Mr. Langreder 
contracted a second matrimonial alliance, celebrating his marriage to Mrs. 
Louisa Swarica in Washington Township. This worthy lady was born in Hanover, 
Germany, and came to America alone, following her parents to this country. She 
is the mother of six children by her present union and two by a former 
marriage, viz.: Bertie, Mary, Lillie, Anna, Carrie and Detrick.

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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