Bio of Markus, Matthias (b.1872) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Markus, Matthias (page 612), who for 30 years was engaged in farm
development in Highland Township, but is now deceased, was a native of
Luxemburg, and came to this county about 1875. Settling directly in
Highland Township, he took land which was little or not at all developed,
and spent the next and last thirty years of his life in its improvement,
transforming it finally into a good farm. He died May 17, 1905. Mr. Markus
married Christine Youck, who was born in Switzerland in 1865, and had come
to America with her brother. They had a family of eight children: Peter
L., now a merchant at Dumfries, in Glasgow Township; Lena, wife of John
Cook, a farmer of Plainview Township; Gerrett, who is residing on the old
home farm in Highland township; Anna, unmarried, also living on the home
farm; Margaret, now Mrs. Irvin Dietrich of Watopa Township; George and
Joseph, both on the home farm; and Doris, who is a stenographer for the
Goodrich Rubber Co., at St. Paul, Minn.