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

Frederick Scheiwe is now living retired in the village of Crete but for many 
years was closely and actively connected with farming interests, to which is 
due the measure of prosperity that he is now enjoying. His birth occurred in 
Crete township in 1858 and he comes of worthy German ancestry. His father, 
Christof Scheiwe, was born in Germany and died in the year 1903 at the age of 
seventy-five. He crossed the briny deep to the United States in 1847 with his 
brother, John Scheiwe, who located in Crete township. For some time Christof 
Scheiwe worked on a farm for five dollars per month, being thus employed for 
about three years. He then invested his earnings in eighty acres of land in 
Crete township and as opportunity offered he extended the boundaries of his 
place until he had added to it one hundred and thirty-acres. He also owned 
eighty acres in Washington township and his holdings likewise embraced more 
than four hundred acres in Iroquois county. He was practically penniless when 
he came to America and through his industry and frugality he became a 
prosperous agriculturist. He was held in high esteem by his neighbors and 
friends and bore an unquestioned reputation for business honor and integrity. 
Of the Evangelical Lutheran church he served as treasurer of Eagle Lake church 
for thirty years and did all in his power to promote the growth and insure the 
development of that organization. In politics he was always an ardent 
republican and filled the offices of collector and justice of the peace. In 
addition to his farming interests he engaged extensively in feeding stock for 
the market and that proved an important element in his success. He married 
Sophie Luecke, a native of Germany, who died in 1894 at the age of sixty 
years. She came to the new world with her parents, who located in Monee 
township, and she too was a worthy Christian, holding membership in the 
Evangelical church. The eight children of the family were as follows: William, 
a resident farmer of Minnesota; John, of Crete township; Frederick, of this 
review; Christ, a farmer of Iroquois county; Henry, farming in the same 
county; Gust, of Crete township; Sophie, the wife of John Tatge, of Washington 
township; and Lena, the wife of Louis Kuhlman, of Crete township. Mr. Scheiwe 
was reared upon a farm and attended the district schools. He began farming on 
his own account about 1885 on his father's land in Iroquois county, where he 
remained for twelve years, purchasing and improving there one hundred and 
fifty acres of good land. He then located on the old homestead farm at Crete, 
where he remained for several years, and in 1903 he retired from active 
business life, taking up his abode in the village of Crete, where he occupies 
a comfortable and commodious home, being surrounded there with, all the 
necessities and many of the luxuries of life. He is a director in the Crete 
State Bank. In 1885 Mr. Scheiwe was married to Miss Sophia Harst, who was born 
in Washington township in 1861, a daughter of Fred and Mary Harst, both of 
whom came from Germany in early life, settling in Washington township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Scheiwe have a daughter and son, Lydia and Alfred, the latter a college 
student. The family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church and occupy 
an enviable position in social circles in which they move. Mr. Scheiwe is a 
republican who has served as a member of the village board of trustees, and 
his co-operation in movements for the general good has made him a valued 
citizen, while his carefully directed business affairs have gained, for him a 
substantial place among the citizens of affluence.

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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