Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Frenzel, Rudolph 1836 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

RUDOLPH FRENZEL. This pioneer, who in 1859 removed with his family to section
24, Vermont Township, Tuscola County, then entered land which is now considered
among the best in the county, but it required herculean efforts to prepare this
land for cultivation as it was then covered by a heavy growth of beech, maple,
basswood and hemlock trees. Mr. Frenzel was born in 1836, in Germany and is a
son of Charles G. and Wilhelmina Frenzel. The father was born in 1807, in
Dresden, Germany, and is the son of a merchant, Henry Frenzel, and the
grandfather of the Rev. Charles Frenzel a Lutheran minister.

  The father of our subject was a harness maker by trade and in his native land
followed this calling up to the time when he emigrated to the New World, coming
to the United States in 1851. He married in 1835 and to him and his good wife
were bom five bright and interesting children, three of whom are still in this
life; Rudolph, our subject; Gustavus; Bertha, the wife of Cornelius Schmidt of
Saginaw. Charles F. Frenzel established a harness shop in Clarence Center, Erie
County, N. Y., which he carried on for eight years, and it was in 1859 that he
removed his family to Fremont Township, locating upon both Government and State
land, eighty acres in all. He continued residing here and carrying on the
business of farming the remainder of his life and passed from earth in 1885,
being: survived only three years by his faithful companion.

  At the age of fifteen, Rudolph Frenzel undertook independent work, going into
the harness shop and learning that trade which he followed until he came to this
county, when, like his father he took up eighty acres of Government land and
devoted himself to its cultivation. In 1876, he was united in marriage with
Eliza Engel, daughter of Carl and Sophia Engel, and to them have been born six
children, whose names are Bertha, Charles, Rudolph, Jr., Theodore, Herman and
William E. In this new country our subject and his father made their own roads
to their land and built log cabins in which to shelter the families. Our subject
helped to organize all the school districts of this township but one and was one
of the first township officers, being Clerk for seven terms. He has been one of
the leading men of the township both in business and educational matters since
coming here, and is at present Township Treasurer. He has also been a liberal
supporter of churches, having helped swell the building fund for nearly every
house of worship which has been put up in the township and having been active in
helping to build the first one that was erected within the bounds of the
township. His splendid farm of one hundred and eighty acres is an ornament to
the township, and eighty acres of it are under thorough cultivation.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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