FREDERICK W. HERBERT, farmer, P. O. Alvada, was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 25, 1833, son of Fredorick and Margarita Herbert, natives of Germany, and where the latter died April 13, 1849. After his wife's demise, Frederick Herbert came to Ohio about 1861, and died in Loudon Township, this county, May 1, 1868. Our subject immigrated to Loudon Township, this county, in 1861, where he met Miss Josephine Schlemmer, who was born in Seneca County, Ohio, January 21, 1844, a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Schlemmer (both deceased). On the 24th of February, 1870, the ceremony was performed which made our subject and Miss Schlemmer husband and wife, and to this union have been born two children: Sarah E., born October 4, 1872; and Amelia Y., born January 18, 1876. Mr. Herbert is a carpenter by trade, but has been engaged in farming since coming to America, where he has met with good success. He owns fifty-six and a half acres of good land, whereon he and his family reside. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert are members of the German Reformed Church. He served in the regular army in the mother country from 1854 to 1860.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.721
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