Lake-Starke County IN Archives Biographies.....Friedrich, Charles W. 1846 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES W. FRIEDRICH.

    Charles W. Friedrich, the miller at Dyer, has been successfully conducting
the mill at this place for the past ten years, and has followed that line of
business almost continuously since he was fifteen years old, when he became an
apprentice to the trade in his native Germany, and where he learned all the
details of the work in the thorough manner so much in vogue in the fatherland.
He came to America during his young manhood, and has had a very successful
career in different parts of the middle west since that time. He is counted
among the influential citizens at Dyer, and is enterprising and public-spirited
in all that he undertakes, whether for personal advantage or for community
interest.

    Mr. Friedrich was born in Germany, December 24, 1846, and was reared and
educated in his native country. He attended the public schools during the
required limit up to his fourteenth year, and then became a miller's apprentice,
continuing his work faithfully for three years and graduating as a master at the
trade. He followed his chosen occupation in Germany until 1872, when he embarked
and crossed the ocean to America. For some time he was engaged in the express,
grocery and saloon business in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1881 he moved to North
Judson, Starke county, Indiana, and bought a mill, which he operated until 1893.
He then sold out, and in the following year came to Dyer and bought the flouring
mill at this place. He has improved the plant in many ways, and increased its
productive capacity to fifty barrels a day besides adding to the quality of its
output and building up an extensive trade and demand for all his products.

    Mr. Friedrich has been a Democrat ever since entering the ranks of American
citizenship, and is loyal and public-spirited in his attachment to his adopted
land. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and also affiliates with the
Masonic fraternity at Hammond.

    He was married in 1870 to Miss Mary H. Ness,, also a native of Germany. They
are the parents of three children: William H., who is at home, and who married
Miss Ida Ross, of North Judson; Dr. L. M., of Hobart; and Jacob O., of Berwyn,
Illinois.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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