Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Friedel, Adam March 27, 1846 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

ADAM FRIEDEL, farmer, sec. 12, Morton Tp. (P.O., Mecosta), was born at 
Darmstadt, Germany, March 27, 1846.  

His parents left the "Faderland" when he was a lad, and located in Waterloo 
Co., Can., where they remained 

about seven years, and then came to Mecosta County in the year 1862, the first 
settlers in Mecosta.  They 

made the journey hither via Ionia, Mich., and cut their way through the woods 
15 miles.  The father (Justus) 

entered a claim of 80 acres of land under the Homestead act.  The selection of 
locality proved judicious, as 

the D. L. & N. R. R. traverses the entire width of the farm, and the 
enterprising village of Mecosta has 

been located one mile west.  The primeval forest was in its original 
condition.   The nearest inhabitants 

were two miles distant, located like themselves in a dense forest; their place 
of supply was Greenville, 

Montcalm Co., 40 miles away - solid wood intervening - and at Big Rapids, the 
civilization center of Mecosta 

County, the work of improvement was in its swaddling clothes.  To the original 
80 acres of land 40 acres 

have been added by purchase, and 80 acres are under the plow.

The "Vater and Mutter" are the central figures of the household.  They have 
reached the respecive ages of 73 

and 72, retain their old country habits of early rising, and the wholesome 
hilarity that characterizes their 

race.  "Shermany" is warmly remembered; but they rejoice in their prosperity 
here and the rapid strides of 

Mecosta County toward a fair rank with the other counties of the Peninsular 
State.

Mr. Friedel is now the proprietor and manager of the property described.  He 
was married May 14, 1872, to 

Catherine, daughter of Sebastian and Christine Erich, a native of the same 
place with her husband, and was 

born June 20, 1852.  She came to the United States in 1861.  Of the marriage 
of Mr. and Mrs. Friedel six 

children have been born:  Frederick W., George Adam, Louise Catherine, Maria, 
Adam Jacob and Ernest.

Mr. Friedel has officiated two terms as Treasurer of his township, has been 
Supervisor, and is now Highway 

Commissioner.  He owns 25 head of good cattle, and five horses.

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