Frederick Maring Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Paris, Biographical Sketches, Page 1035

FREDERICK MARING, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Dickeyville; son of Caspar Ortes and 
Margaret Maring, was born in Burch, Ewrach, Bavaria, Aug. 10, 1807; he came to 
the United States in 1841, and lived in Pennsylvania one year; then to Galena, 
Ill., where they remained a year; then to Hazel Green, where they lived thirteen 
years, and followed mining three years; then engaged in farming, etc.; in 1856, 
settled in Paris on Sec. 21, where he now resides and owns 163 acres.  He was 
married in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1842; has ten children living - the 
eldest, Festus, is at home; he enlisted in Co. I, 25th W. V. I., Aug. 6,1862; 
served through the war and was discharged June 7, 1865; he is a member of the 
Town Board, and a member of the fraternity of Odd Fellows; Louisa, now Mrs. 
Wackershauser, in Paris, Wis.; Catharine, now Mrs. Montag, residing in Iowa; 
Magdalena, now Mrs. Hoffmeister, in Potosi, Wis.;	William, Dickeyville; 
Mary, now Mrs. Schneider, in Wausau, Wis.; Mitchell and Friederick, at home; 
Barbara, now Mrs. Schmeltz, in Dubuque, Iowa; Leone, at home.