Fred Krohe Biography  
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FRED KROHE was born in Casscounty, September 30, 1849, and was reared in Beardstown, which has beenhis home. He is the son of Fred Krohe, Sr., who was born in Saxony, Germany,May 8, 1809, and who died November, 1880, in Beardstown. He was a youngman when with his parents he came to the United States. He married in Cincinnati,Sophia Hoverkluf, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1816, and died March20, 1888. She had come with her parents to the United States to Cass county,both dying there. She had a family of six children, of whom three are living.

Mr. Krohe is a man who hasdevoted his time to his business and the amassing of a fortune. He hasnow retired and is living in Beardstown, and is living on the corner ofWashington and Third streets. He has made a fortune and owns some veryvaluable property, and is owner of the opera-house block and some fineproperty in the county. He has lived in this county all his life, exceptthree years in Omaha, Nebraska, where he has some property interests.

He was married in Beardstown,to Elizabeth Stock of Cass county, a native of the same county. She wasborn February, 1846. She was reared and educated in this county and isthe daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Stock, natives of Prussia. Mr. andMrs. Stock, were wealthy and well-known members of the county, and weremembers of the Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Krohe died at St. Louis,May 9, 1892; she was a good and worthy woman, who had always lived in Casscounty and was associated with its history. Since her death Mr. Krohe haslived in his home at Beardstown.

Biographical Review ofCass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review PublishingCo., Chicago, 1892, page 259.

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