Frederick Liebing Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 483-484

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FREDERICK LIEBING, who resides on section 3, Grant Center township, is one of 
Grant county's progressive and representative agriculturists.  Mr. Liebing was 
born in Germany September 9, 1848, and is a son of Christopher and Johanna 
(Klappe) Liebing, also natives of Germany.

His father, Christopher Liebing, was born on the 31st of October, 1814, and was 
by occupation a shepherd.  He was married to Miss Johanna Klappe in 1839. She 
was born November 11, 1812.  They came to this country in 1854, settling first 
in New York, where they remain two years, after which they went west to Waukesha 
county, Wisconsin.  After two years spent there they removed to LeSueur county, 
Minnesota, and pre-empted a forty-acre farm, upon which they lived until 1879. 
Mr. Liebing then removed to Grant county, South Dakota, and filed upon a claim 
in section 12, Grant Center township, where he still resides.  Our subject, who 
was the sixth child in a family of eight, was but six years old when his parents 
came to America, and he spent the earlier years of his life in New York, 
Wisconsin and Minnesota.  In 1872 his father gave him a farm of seventy-two 
acres, which he improved and cultivated for about six years.  In July of that 
year he went to Grant county, South Dakota, and settled upon a government claim 
in section 3, Grant Center township, his present home.  He worked upon the land 
during the fall of that year, preparing the place for the family, whom he 
brought to the new home in May, 1879, having returned to Minnesota a few months 
previously for that purpose.  Mr. Liebing now owns three hundred and twenty 
acres of land, and has one of the most prosperous and attractive farms in the 
township, well-improved and almost entirely under cultivation. Our subject is 
politically a Republican, and a member of the Evangelical Association.  He has 
always taken a leading part in local affairs, and has always interested himself 
in matters relating to the welfare of the township and county.

On the 22d of May, 1872, Mr. Liebing was married in LeSueur county, Minnesota, 
to Miss Caroline Sieveke, who was born March 25, 1854, and is a daughter of 
Charles and Fredericka (Williams) Sieveke, both natives of Germany, who died in 
LeSueur county, Minnesota.  Mr. and Mrs. Liebing are the parents of ten 
children, five sons and five daughters, two of whom died in infancy.  Those 
living are, Henry, Lydia, Carrie, Charles, Christina, Leila and David.  The five 
eldest children were born in Minnesota, and the others in South Dakota.  Henry 
is now married and resides upon a farm of his own in Grant county.