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Subject: [MNSTEARN] Re: Fiedler, Rieder (Reader), Rassier, Schindler, and Schneider
Date: 20 Jul 2002 07:44:08 -0600

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Surnames: Rieder
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RE: Andreas "Andrew" Johann Rieder DOB: May 30, 1836

The Reider's were wagon makers in Germany. Arrived in America in North Carolina in 1858 (age 22) and returned to Germany for one year before a permanent return to the US in 1860 or 1861. On November 21, 1861 he volunteered with the Union Army at Camp Diamond in Middle Ohio as a private in Company H, 53rd Regiment of the Ohio infantry. He was in the battle of Shilo - 1862; the seige of Vicksburg - 1863; was wounded at Chickamanga. He marched from "Atlanta to the Sea" after Sherman's army captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864. They reached Savannah, Georgia on December 20, 1864. He was honorably discharged and mustered out of the service after four years on February 15, 1865 at Columbus, Ohio and was granted citizenship. He married his first wife (Rachel Kline) in Middlesport, Ohio in 1865 and moved to Iowa where they had two children. They moved to Mpls in 1876 and Rachel died on November 16, 1877. He lived in Anoka, MN for the next two years. He drove a stage from D!
elano to Rockford. He built a house and barn for his family in Delano. Around 1906 or 1907 he made a trip to Williston ND to visit two sons and a daughter. Because of his veteran status, he was granted homestead land near his son's property free of any residence and improvement requirements. When his daughter Lydia died in early 1911, Andreas and Albertina helped Lydia's husband (Leonard) raise the five children. Andreas died in late 1911 after a faily long battle with stomach cancer.

During the 1880 federal census, Andrew was noted as a "wagon maker" married to Albertina and having daughters Florence & Lydia, and son Leonard in the Village of Delano, MN.

In the History of Wright County, Vol II (1915), he was noted as having been a member of the Delano IOOF Lodge #80, and trustee of elections in Delano, MN in 1880 (but resigned that same year as he moved from the area).

Ruth Johnson reports they owned the Delano Meat Market "before leaving to Dakota, for more meat, no doubt".

Let me know if this is a relative and I can provide even more details...

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