ANDREW RAHE is a well known and
wealthy farmer, living in
In August,
1848, Mr. Rahe was united in wedlock with Mrs.
Catherine Weekman, a widow, who was born in Oldenburg,
Germany, and came to America with her parents when a child. In 1843, with her
husband, she made the journey from
Directly
after his marriage Mr. Rahe located on the farm where
he has ever since resided. Coming to this county as he did, without means, he
early set about making for himself a competency, and now aside from the large
farm on which he makes his home he owns several farms in
To Mr. and
Mrs. Rahe have been born the following children: Clement,
who wedded Mary, daughter of Joseph Schimmel, and is
engaged in farming near Dyersville; Henry, whose wife died, leaving four
children, and who now resides with his father on the farm; Frank, a farmer of
Delaware County, who wedded Miss Mary Wesell; and
Annie, the wife of Theodore Brockmann, a well known
agriculturist of Delaware County. Our subject was brought up in the Catholic
faith, to which he still belongs. He uses his right of franchise in favor of
the Democratic party, and both as a business man and
for his own well known qualities of true worth is held in the highest respect
by one and all.
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