Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Kritzer, Conrad January 26, 1838 - 
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Author: 1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

CONRAD KRITZER, farmer, section 10, Ashland Township, was born in Germany, 
Jan. 26, 1838, and is a son of 

Henry and Elizabeth (Moll) Kritzer, also natives of Germany.  He was educated 
in his native land, and when 

17 years old came to the United States and found employ as a farm laborer in 
Lisbon, Ottawa County.  Two 

years later he went to Illinois, and after a ddelay there of some months' 
duration he returned to 

Michigan, and i 1865 located on 80 acres of finely timbered land, most of 
which he has already placed 

under good improvements, with unusually good farm buildings.

He enlisted June 10, 1861, in the 3d Mich. Inf.  The regiment was assigned to 
the command of General 

Sigel, Corps commander of the Army of the Potomac.  Mr. Kritzer was a 
participant in the first battle of 

Bull's Run, Fredericksburg and Fair Oaks, where he was captured, held some 
time and was finally exchanged. 

 He was in the fights at Yorktown and at Chancellorsville.  At the latter 
engagement he was injured by a 

fall from the breastworks and was transferred to the "Invalid Corps," to which 
he was attached until June 

20, 1864, when he was discharged.

He was married June 4, 1868, in the City of Grand Rapids, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Valentine and 

Catherine (Ritz) Shafer.  She was born in Germany, April 15, 1846.  She grew 
up and was educated in 

Neiderstoll, and at 20 years of age set out alone to the United Stats and 
became an inmate of the family 

of her uncle at Lowell, Mich.  She remained there two years, when she came to 
Grand Rapids and resided 

there until her marriage.  All the children, five in number, born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Kritzer, are living.  

They are Matilda, born March 25, 1867; John, Feb. 12, 1870; Charles H., April 
12, 1873; Mary E., Jan. 12, 

1876; Maggie, March 28, 1879.  Both parents belong to the P.H., Lodge No. 545, 
Ashland Center.  Mr. 

Kritzer is a member of Lodge No. 331, I.O.O.F., at Ashland Center, and is a 
Republican.

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