Christian H GERTZ

"From History of Scott County, Iowa 1882 Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co."

Christian H. Gertz was born in Oberwholdac, Oldenburg Province, Germany, Jan. 28, 1837. His parents were John H. and Anna (Beck) Gertz, natives of Germany, and the parents of five children, four living, viz.: Christina, Catherine, Christian H. and Henry P.; the father died in 1866, and the mother died on the way to America in 1847, and was buried at sea. Christian H. Hertz came to America when he was 10 years old, accompanied by his parents, arriving here the fall of 1847. They went to St. Louis, thence to Quincy, Ill., where they remained until 1850, when they came to Davenport, this State. His father bought a farm in Sheridan Township, lived there until 1856, then moved to a farm in Lincoln Township, where our subject was married to Lena Peiper, Sept, 22, 1860. She was born in Holstein, Germany, and came with her parents to the United States when 13 years of age. her mother, Anna (Brockman) Peiper, died Feb. 8, 1853, and her father was again married, to Maggie Weise. After Mr. and Mrs. Gertz were married they lived on the farm with his father until 1862, then moved on a farm on section 20, where he purchased his present farm in 1864, of 160 acres, valued at $75 an acre. He has a nice dwelling-house and one of the finest barns in the county on his place. He and wife have had one child, Louisa M., born May 3, 1862, and died Aug. 14, 1863. In politics he is Republican.

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