Greene-Lawrence-Martin County IN Archives Biographies.....Raeth, George 1845 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   GEORGE RAETH was born in Bedford, Lawrence Co., Ind., April 17, 1845, son of
Joseph and Margaret (Paoth) Raeth, both natives of Germany. They both came to
the United States when young and were married in Lawrence County. Father was a
baker and followed that and mercantile pursuits in Bedford. Father is dead;
mother lives in Bedford and is married to Joseph Hircher. Mr. Raeth was the only
child born to his parents. His father and also his step-father were in wars in
their native country. Subject received a common education. When twenty, began
working at carpenter's trade. In 1865, subject enlisted in Company B, One
Hundred and Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close
of the war. Then he began working at his trade, which he followed three years:
then went at blacksmithing and wagon-making, which he followed some time, and
thereafter working at carpentering a short time. In 1873, he came to
Worthington, Ind., and began in a bakery; began in a small way and has made what
he now has. Has done it by hard work and economy, and is a self-made man. He is
now doing; a general grocery business, in connection with which he runs a
first-class bakery. He has built up a good trade, which is steadily increasing.
He has always voted with the Republican party. Has been a member of the Town
Council and held other offices. Belongs to A. O. U. W., K. of H. and K. of P.
Married Miss Catharine Bowman, June 11. 1871. She was born in Morgan County,
Ill., July 29, 1853. From this union, two children, viz., Leetus and Charles A.
Subject and wife are members of the Christian Church. Has always favored good
schools and all needed reforms and worthy public enterprises as far as his means
would permit. Leetus was born in Martin County, Ind., near Harrison, March 11,
1872; Charles A. was born in Worthington, Ind., May 8, 1877. Pleas Bowman and
wife, Clarissa Williams, the parents of Mrs. Raeth, were natives of Indiana, the
Bowmans settling in Lawrence and the Williamses in Washington County, Ind., in a
very early day, and were well known to the early settlers of those counties. To
Pleas Bowman and wife were born a family of three children. They moved to Morgan
County, Ill., soon after their marriage, and remained there some years, when
they returned to Indiana and there passed the remainder of their days. They were
good and highly respected people.



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Jefferson Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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