George Veidt Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 23 October 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Harlan Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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1043

GEORGE VEIDT, farmer; P. O. Edwardsville; a native of Baden, Germany, born Nov. 1, 1832. He was educated in the common schools of his native land, and they being of a superior character, his advantages for a common school education were good. In early youth, he was apprenticed to learn the cabinet-maker's trade, at which he was compelled to work for three years; he also learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1854, he concluded to try his fortunes in America. He came to Cincinnati in May, 1854, and from there he went to Newport, Ky., and worked at the carpenter's trade for about two years, receiving $28 per month. Mr. Veidt came to Rossburg, this county, in 1856, and on March the 30th of that year, be was united in marriage to Catharine Balzhiser, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, born Jan. 4, 1832. These parents had the following children: Mary, born Nov. 19, 1857, died Nov, 21, 1869; William, born Oct. 30, 1858; Louisa, born July 29, 1860, died same month; Katie, born Sept. 29, 1864, and George, born Jan. 4, 1879. Mr. Veidt settled on his present farm some seventeen years ago. He at first rented it, but succeeded so well that he was soon able to purchase it; 100 acres good land, in a high state of cultivation; his barn and dwellings are models of neatness and comfort; they were built by Mr. Veidt and they show skill and industry; it exhibits what industry and economy will do in the race of life. Michael, his father, was a native of Germany, born Jan. 1, 1801; he married Barbara Bennert, who was nine years his junior. Mr. Veidt was well educated and officiated as Clerk and Recorder of his district for over forty-five years. They never came to America, but rest in the fatherland, she having died about the year 1870, and he some nine years later. They were the parents of four sons — Michael, who resides in Cincinnati, born November, 1829; Jacob, born December, 1836, and John, born July, 1854. The parents of Mrs. Veidt were of German origin, and their history appears elsewhere in this work.


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