of Saxony, Germany · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Edward Geyer b. 1834
parentsChristian Geyer & Eva Geyer
Edward Geyer⚭ Eliza Sowerine
childrenTheodore Geyer · Louis Geyer · Edward Geyer · Louisa Geyer · Jennie Geyer · Emma Geyer · Cora Geyer · Alice Geyer · Lawrence Geyer · Rosa Geyer
Their story
What the record says
Commemorative Biographical Record, Ohio.
Prominent farmer and wealthy landowner of Sherman township, Huron county, Ohio.
Born on the Austrian frontier of Saxony.
Brought to America at age 7 (1840).
Worked in father's tanyard as a boy.
Amassed a fortune, owner of 500 acres and a palatial pressed-brick residence.
Married Eliza Sowerine in 1859.
Public-spirited Republican.
Paid for substitutes during the Civil War to care for his parents.
Daughter Louisa married a Mr. Miller and has a child Levi.
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