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Born January 1802, Switzerland · in Harris Township from 1847
The tie, exactly: settler — born in Switzerland in January 1802, a son of Benedict and Mary Koker; came to America in 1824 and lived in Ohio until 1846, then came to this county, living first in Clay Township and removing to Harris in 1847, where his eighty acres lay on Section 22.
The course: he married Mary Becher in 1825; she died 31 December 1879, weeks before Chapman's sketch was gathered. He was a Presbyterian, in a township whose churches Howard lists as Presbyterian, Evangelical and Christian. His post office was South Bend. Koker's course — a twenty-two-year wait in Ohio between emigration and this ground — is the immigrant pattern of half this roll, and his entry stands for it at full sketch strength.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches, pp. 715–717 — the Koker sketch.