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Source:
History of Auglaize Co., Ohio -
Vol. II of 2 Volumes
Edited by William J. McMurray
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1923
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FRED
W. QUELLHORST, a well known and substantial farmer and
landowner of St. Mary's township, now living retired at New
Bremen, was born on a pioneer farm in St. Marys township, about
midway between St. Marys and New Bremen, Jan. 16, 1862, and is a
son of CHARLES H. and Anna (Meyer)
Quellhorst, the latter of whom also was born in that
township, a member of one of the pioneer families there.
Charles Henry Quellhorst was about twenty-one years of
age when he came to America with his parents, the family
settling in this county, and for some time after coming here he
was employed on a state boat in the canal service out of St.
Marys. The money thus earned was presently utilized to buy
a small farm in St. Marys township, a tract of eighty acres
along the canal in section 26, and he established his home
there. He did well at his farming operations and as his
affairs prospered added to his holdings until he was the owner
of 240 acres in that township. There he and his wife spent
their last days. They were the parents of ten children,
eight of whom grew to maturity, the subject of this sketch
having had three sisters, Minnie (deceased), Flory
and Sophia and three brothers, John D., August H.,
Edward and Florence. Reared on the home farm in
St. Marys township, Fred W. Quellhorst completed his
schooling in the school house at Lock 2 (New Paris) and remained
on the farm, a valued aid to his father in the labors of
developing the same, until his marriage, after which for one
year he made his home on a rented farm and then bought a tract
of forty acres to which he presently added an adjoining tract of
twenty acres. He continued farming this sixty-acre farm
for some time and then sold it and bought a farm of 100 acres.
On this latter place, which he still owns, Mr. Quellhorst
continued actively engaged in farming until his retirement in
1912 and removal to New Bremen, where he since has made his home
and where he and his wife are very comfortably situated.
Fred W. Quellhorst married Emma Kellermeyer
daughter of C. F. Kellermeyer, a member of one of the old
families in this county, and to this union three children were
born, namely: Ferd H., who married Malinda
Fricke and has one child, a daughter, Leota; Luella,
who married Arlie W. Sweppe and has three children,
Alma, Vernon and Merlin, and Alvera, who
married Oscar Hirschfelt and has two children, Virgil
and Leverta. Mr. Quellhorst is a Democrat and has
ever given a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs,
but has not been a seeker after public office. He and his
wife are members of St. Paul's Lutheran church, with which
congregation he has been connected for thirty-five years.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II - Pub. 1923 -
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