Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

A.D. GREIF, Pastor of German Lutheran Church, 
Chandlerville; was born in Meiningen, Germany, June 16, 
1849, to C.F. and Susanna (Seugling) Greif, natives of 
Germany, where they are now living. Our subject was 
educated at Real Schule College, and in 1868 emigrated to 
America, and landed Oct. 15, 1868, in New York, where he 
began teaching German in the German American Institute, of 
Gerke Koessly, on Twenty-third street. His pupils paid $300 
per term; one of them was the son of President Arthur. In 
1869 he attended the Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. 
Louis, and in 1870 graduated, and was ordained to the 
ministry by Dr. C.F.W. Walther. He went to Texas in July, 
1870, where he took charge of a church at Independence, and 
afterward at Serbin. In December, 1875, he removed to 
Little Rock, Ark., where he took charge of a congregation 
for one and one-half years. In August, 1877, he removed to 
Chandlerville, this county, where he has since remained in 
charge of the German Lutheran Church. While in Texas, he 
met with several mishaps: once being bitten by a 
rattlesnake in the back of the head; again, by being 
threatened by a member of his congregation with a butcher-
knife; and by being nearly drowned in quicksand. In New 
Orleans, April 17, 1874, he married Miss Louisa Odendahl, a 
native of Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany; born Sept. 5, 
1847. They have two children which they have adopted-Herman 
and Frieda Greif.

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