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Fred and Lena Haartz family in front of home, circa 1890
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- circa 1890 (Creation)
Extent
1 slide, black and white
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Index card states that this is the Hartz family residence, located near Farmhill. Fred Hartz was born on December 12, 1821 in Oberlinken, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1857 and lived for two years in Manistee, Michigan where he met his wife, Lena Hespring. They were married in 1858. They had nine children, five of whom died in infancy. The family moved to Neoha, Wisconsin in 1860 and came to the Farmhill homestead in 1876. They moved again in 1893, to Edgar (Marathon County), Wisconsin where Fred Hartz died on March 8 1894.