CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REV. JACOB GRAESSLE (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, p.740-741
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

REV. JACOB GRAESSLE, Bucyrus was born Feb. 14, 1836 in Wurtemberg, Germany, and is the son of Jacob
and Sophie (Smith) Graessle. He received a common-school education and this was supplemented by a course in a
gymnasium. He also went to a State Normal School, called Nuertingen Seminary, remaining there till 19 years of
age. He obtained a State certificate, and taught in his native village until he was 21 years of age. He then sailed for
America from Havre, France, and after a voyage of 47 days, landed at New York in August, 1857. Having relatives
at Lancaster, Ohio, he removed thither, and remained some eight months. In the fall of 1858, became a teacher in
a private school at Richmond, Ind., and taught two years. In September, 1860. he entered the Capital University at
Columbus, Ohio, and entered upon a theological course, graduating in 1862. He was received into the ministry, and
commenced his labors at Sidney, Ohio, in September, being Pastor of the John's Lutheran Church for five years.
>From this field of labor he came to Bucyrus in 1867, and has remained here ever since as Pastor of the Good Hope
Church. He has established a missionary station at Wingert's Corners, which has been productive of much good
His congregation is at present one of the strongest and largest in the town, its Pastor being a devoted and earnest
worker. He was married in April 1864 to Louisa Fuechtemeyer of Richmond, Ind. They have seven children living:
Emma C., Otto L., Ida, August A., Bertha, Sophia and Whillemina. His father was a carpenter by trade, and Mayor
of his village. Both his parents and seven other children removed to this country, and both father and mother died
at Jacksonville, Ill.