of Scott County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Fritz Bernick
parentsBernick
Fritz Bernick⚭ Melinda Harsch (m. 1881)
childrenFritz Bernick · Emanuel H. Bernick · Benjamin H. Bernick · Henry H. Bernick · Charlie Bernick · Lulu M. Bernick
Source: Source: History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa (1910)
Their story
What the record says
History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa (1910).
Reared on farm in Blue Grass township to age nine, then removed with parents to Muscatine county.
Completed studies in Davenport 1871.
Farmer/stockman raising Scotch shorthorn cattle on ~280 acres in Scott County.
Also owned land in Kansas (bought 1886) and Canada.
Democrat.
Elected justice of the peace 1906.
Township trustee and school director.
Stockholder in Blue Grass Savings Bank.
Siblings: Moritz (farmer, Muscatine county), Adolf (Cedar county, Iowa), Elizabeth (wife of Charles Sheelie of Davenport).
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