Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Walch, Frederick August 20, 1839 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

FREDERICK WALCH, farmer, sec. 13, Wheatland Tp., is the son of Michael and 
Margaret (Wolf) Walch, both of 

whom were natives of France, and of German descent.  He was born in the 
Province of Auvergne, France, Aug. 

20, 1839.  He received a fair education in German, and was a laborer on the 
railroad and canal which were 

then in process of building through the section where he was born and reared.  
He left his native land in 

the spring of 1857, and came to Ontario, Can., where he was a farm laborer.  
He was married in Waterloo 

Co., Ont., in March, 1863, to Margaret, daughter of Jasper and Margaret (Horn) 
Otterbeign, natives of 

Germany, where Mrs. Walch was born, Aug. 15, 844.  Her parents came to America 
and located in Waterloo 

Co., when she was ten years old.  After his marriage Mr. Walch was a farmer at 
Waterloo County until 1865. 

 In that year he removed to Montcalm Co., Mich., and settled at Greenville.  
He was there employed four 

years in a saw-mill.  In 1869 he came to Wheatland Tp., and bought 40 acres of 
wild land, to which he has 

since added 80 acres.  Of this land he has by his own exertions placed 60 
acres under the best 

improvements.

Mr. and Mrs. Walch have buried five of their nine children.  The four 
surviving are as follows:  Philip, 

born Feb. 14, 1862; Margaret, Oct. 2, 1865; Frederic, Nov. 15, 1872; Dora, 
Feb. 18, 1879.  John died in 

infancy; Angeline, born July 5, 1868, died in August, 1880; MIchael, born Oct. 
21, 1870, died Oct. 31, 

1876; Laura, born Jan. 1, 1875; died July 25, 1879; Lillie M., born Nov., '76, 
died Aug. 1, 1879.

Mr. Walch has not yet oricured his papers of citizenship; himself and wife are 
members of the German 

Lutheran Church.

Additional Comments:
8813 Portrait & Bio Alumbum of Mecosta Co., MI.

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