Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....C., John 1815 - 
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      JOHN C. KRUGER, a prominent and representativo citizen, of Ellsworth township,
living on section 8, came to this county May 27,1862, and settled on section 8 of
the same town, where he remained until the Indian outbreak that fall. At that time
he went to Forest City, Kingston, and Clearwater, but soon came back and remained
that winter in Forest City. In the spring he moved to a farm in that vicinity, and
from there after one season spent in Greenleaf township, came to his present
residence, where he took up eighty acres under the homestead law, to which he has
added some 300 acres, and now has an excellent farm. 

    Mr. Kruger was born in the northern part of Germany, May 1, 1815, and is the son
of Charles D. Kruger, who was the parent of five children — four besides our subject
— William, Herman, Charles and Mary, the latter the widow of John Putzer, of
Greenleaf.

              Mr. Kruger remained in the “fatherland” until 1851, when he sought in
free America the chance for achieving a competency denied in the land of his birth,
so down-trodden, is it by military despotism. He located in Illinois, where he
remained until coming to Minnesota, Before leaving his native country, October
20,1846, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Long, a native of the same Empire,
a daughter of Fred Long. She was born March 20, 1824. By this union there have been
born five children, as follows — Charles, Ferdinand, Mary, Minnie and Lizzie. In his
political faith Mr. Kruger strongly clings to the republican doctrines, and supports
the candidates of that party.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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