Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Greiveldinger, Henry 1845 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

HENRY GREIVELDINGER.

    Henry Greiveldinger, a well-known and successful farmer of Logan township,
Marshall county, was born in Luxemburg on June 15, 1845, the son of Christopher
and Lena (Cinnon) Greiveldinger.

    Christopher and Lena Greiveldinger were also natives of that country, the
father having been born in 1800 and the mother in 1806. They received their
education in the schools of their native land and there grew to maturity. Mr.
Greiveldinger received instruction in both German and French and was a man of
much ability. After completing his school work he engaged in farming in his
native land until 1855, when he and his family came to the United States. He
established his home in Wisconsin, where he engaged in general farming and stock
raising until his death in 1863. After the death of her husband, Mrs.
Greiveldinger moved to Kansas, where she died in Marshall county in 1888. They
were the parents of fourteen children, seven having come to the United States in
1855 and all are now deceased with the exception of Henry, who was the
thirteenth child of the family.

    Henry Greiveldinger received his earliest educational training in Germany
and completed his education in the schools of the United States. He grew to
manhood on the home farm, where as a lad he assisted his father with the work.
In 1863, on the death of his father, he went to Michigan, where he worked in the
woods and in the saw-mills of that state until 1870, when he came to Marshall
county. Here he took a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Logan
township, which he has since made his home. The tract at that time was
undeveloped and unimproved, but with much hard work and close application to
business, the place is now one of the attractive country homes in the county. He
has erected a large and substantial house, good barn and other outbuildings, and
has made many other valuable improvements. As a general farmer and stockman, he
is recognized as among the successful ones of the township. He keeps a large
herd of splendid Shorthorn cattle and many Duroc-Jersey hogs. Some years ago he
specialized in the raising of hogs and shipped many carloads, but at present the
numbers are more limited.

    Henry Greiveldinger was united in marriage in 1872 to Elizabeth Pirrott, the
daughter of Peter and Catherine (Allair) Pirrott, natives of France and Germany,
respectively. The parents received their education in the schools of their home
communities and there grew to maturity. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Pirrott continued to live in Germany until 1871, when they came to the United
States. Mr. Pirrott was a farmer in Germany and on coining to this country, he
located on a farm in Waterville township, where he homesteaded eighty acres of
land. He did much in the way of development and engaged in general farming for
eight years, when he sold the place to his son and made his home with his
children until his death in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Pirrott were prominent members of
the Catholic church and were highly respected people. They were the parents of
fourteen children, three of whom are still living as follow: Antona, a retired
farmer of Seneca, Kansas: Catherine Cordell, a widow who lives at Tipton,
Kansas, and Elizabeth, the wife of Henry Greiveldinger. Elizabeth Pirrott was
born on October 20, 1851, in Germany, where she received her education in the
public schools and resided there until she was twenty years of age, when she
came with her parents to Waterville township, where she lived until her marriage.

    Henry and Elizabeth Greiveldinger are the parents of eight children as
follow: Peter, who is a farmer of Ford county, Kansas; Henry, a barber, of
Hanover; Catherine Brychta, who resides in Logan township, where her husband is
a farmer; Antone, who is a farmer of Herkimer township; John, a fanner of
Washington county; Elizabeth Hebold, whose husband is a farmer of Logan
township; Maggie Page, the wife of a farmer of Waterville township and Joe, who
is also a fanner. Mr. and Mrs. Greiveldinger.are earnest members of the Catholic
church and have long been active in the social life of the township, where they
have lived for so many years. Mr. and Mrs. Greiveldinger have rented their place
to their son, Antone, and moved to a beautiful home which they own in Hanover,
Kansas.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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