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Born 10 July 1825, Germany · in this township from about 1860
The tie, exactly: settler of the late wave — born in Germany on 10 July 1825, a son of Adam and Margaret Schneck; left Germany in 1853; spent six years from 1854 in Berrien County, Michigan, and then came to this township, where his farm was ninety-three acres on Section 9.
The course: he married Dora Streveal in 1856, in the Michigan years; nine children were born to them. He was a Lutheran — a denomination Howard's township church list does not name, a reminder that the histories' church rolls undercount the Germans of the northern sections — and his post office was Edwardsburg. His entry is Chapman's full sketch at its face: an immigrant course of three countries and two states ending on ninety-three Harris acres.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches, pp. 715–717 — the Schneck sketch.