of Werningshausen, Saxony, Germany · documented from the public record
The family in the record
J. H. Schroeder b. 1840
J. H. Schroeder⚭ Mina Hoffman
childrenGustave A. Schroeder · Rudolf Schroeder
Source: History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa (1910)
Their story
What the record says
History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa (1910).
Native of Werningshausen, Saxony, born September 13, 1840.
Came to the United States in early life.
Cabinet-maker by trade, later farmer on the Locust road, then retired in Davenport.
Lived for a time in Black Hawk, Iowa (now part of Davenport) before marriage.
Married Mina Hoffman in Davenport.
Family removed to a farm near Mount Joy in Scott County in 1888.
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