Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameFriedrich Karl Schnelle 
Birth18 Nov 1836, Minden Germany
FatherCarl (Karl) Heinrich (Henry) Schnelle (1808-1887)
Mother“Mary” Marie Elisabeth Linbach (1811-)
Spouses
BirthGermany
Notes for Friedrich Karl Schnelle
From the “History of Menard and Mason County IL, 1879. Publisher Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co.” Page 835 and 836, in chapter entitled “Biographical Sketches - Manito Township”
“Frederick Schnelle, Farmer, PO Manito, was born in 1836 in Germany, when 15 years old he came with his parents to New York, and worked with them on a farm; in 1854 he moved to Havana IL and worked at farming for H. H. Marbold in Menard Co., afterward working for Fred Looks in Mason Co., and next for John and James Wilson of Tazewell Co. In 1860 he began working on his present farm of 240 Acres, attained entirely by his own labor and management; he has made good improvements. Was married in 1860 to Elizabeth Bahrens of German and by her he had nine children, George, Henry, Ettie, Fred, Katie, Willie, and Catherine (deceased). Mr. Schnelle makes a speciality of threshing wheat. He is collector, and has held the office three years; he has been School Director twelve years and Commissioner three years.”
“Frederick Schnelle, Farmer, PO Manito, was born in 1836 in Germany, when 15 years old he came with his parents to New York, and worked with them on a farm; in 1854 he moved to Havana IL and worked at farming for H. H. Marbold in Menard Co., afterward working for Fred Looks in Mason Co., and next for John and James Wilson of Tazewell Co. In 1860 he began working on his present farm of 240 Acres, attained entirely by his own labor and management; he has made good improvements. Was married in 1860 to Elizabeth Bahrens of German and by her he had nine children, George, Henry, Ettie, Fred, Katie, Willie, and Catherine (deceased). Mr. Schnelle makes a speciality of threshing wheat. He is collector, and has held the office three years; he has been School Director twelve years and Commissioner three years.”