Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Schweppe, Herman 
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HERMAN SCHWEPPE is a member of the firm of J. H. Schweer & Co., of Crete, 
dealers in wagons, buggies and farm implements, and agents for the Wood, 
Minneapolis and McCormick binders and mowers, the John Deere plows and corn 
planters, David Bradley's goods and the Gorham and Hoosier seeders. In 
addition to his connection with this thriving enterprise he has held office as 
secretary of the Crete Farmers' Township Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 
January, 1899, and is also one of its directors. Since April, 1896, he has 
filled the office of town clerk with ability.

Mr. Schweppe was born in Washington Township, near the village of Beecher, 
this county, on the 4th of July, 1864. His father, Frederick, a native of 
Prussia,  Germany, came to the United States when about thirty years of age, 
in 1848. For two years he was employed in Cincinnati, Ohio, after which he 
came to Illinois and settled at Eagle Lake, this county. Purchasing one 
hundred and twenty acres of partly broken land, he gave his attention to its 
further improvement and cultivation.  While he had very limited means on 
coming here, he was prospered to such an extent that he owned one hundred and 
seventy acres at the time of his death, when sixty-nine years of age, in 1890. 
On becoming an American citizen he identified himself with the Republican 
party. In religion he was connected with the German Lutheran Church. In his 
native land he married Ann Wilkie, who survives him and is how seventy-two 
years of age. 

Until his father's death our subject remained on the home farm. Afterward he 
came to Crete and purchased an interest in his present business. He is a 
representative of the energetic, capable young business men of the village. 
His attention is very closely given to the management of the business and to 
his duties as an officer in the fire insurance company. Therefore he has not 
had the leisure for participation in public affairs, although it is his aim to 
keep posted concerning public matters of political or commercial importance.


Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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