Biographical Sketch of Fritz Strosberg, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Fritz Strosberg, P. O. Concordia, Missouri.  Was born in Prussia, March
14, 1834, where he was raised and educated in the common schools.  At the
age of nineteen he came to the United States and settled in St. Louis,
Missouri, for one year.  He then came to this county where he still 
lives.  He learned the tailor's trade in his native land and followed the
same in this country until the breaking out of the war.  In 1858 he was
married to Miss Mary Slaman, a native of Germany, and they have had ten
children, eight of them now living: Edward, Samuel, Daniel, Julia, 
Amelia, Lydia, Ida and Mary.  Since the war he has been engaged in farm-
ing, five miles southeast of Concordia in this county, owning 190 acres
of land.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, 26th Missouri volunteer 
infantry, and was discharged in 1862.  He re-enlisted in the 7th Missouri
state militia cavalry.  This regiment was afterwards consolidated with
the 1st Missouri, in which he was in company M.  Battles: Springfield,
Mark's Mills, where he was taken prisoner to Tyler, Texas; exchanged at
the end of thirteen months.  He was discharged at Little Rock, Arkansas
in 1865.  Both he and his wife are members of the German Baptist church
of Concordia.

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