Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 528 - 531 

FREDERICK BERTHOLF, a lively representative of the mercantile interests of Valley Center, makes a specialty of flour and feed, in the trade of which he has been engaged since the spring of 1887. He arrived in this county in November, 1885, from Humboldt County, Iowa, where he had been for five years previously engaged in farming. His early home was in Lucas County, Ohio, where he was born March 18, 1835.

            Peter and Catherine (South) Bertholf, the parents of our subject, were natives of New York State, where the father followed farming many years, and whence he removed in middle life to Ohio, where with his excellent wife he spent his last days in Lucas County. The mother passed away in 1864, at the age of seventy years. The father survived until 1879, and for some years had been retired from active labor. He was a Republican in his later life, and with his estimable wife a devoted member of the Baptist Church.

            The parents of our subject were among the early settlers of Lucas County, Ohio, to which they removed in 1828, where their son Frederick, of our sketch, was born seven years later. Their ten children consisted of four sons and six daughters, namely: Catherine, Sarah, Rachel, Hannah, Mary, Elmira, James, Isaac, John and Frederick. The latter was the youngest child, and continued under the home roof until a youth of eighteen years. He had in the meantime acquired a good education in the district school, and was thoroughly familiar with farming pursuits, which lie followed until coming to this county. He took to himself a wife and helpmeet on the 29th of October, 1864, namely: Miss Julia S. Corser, a native of his own State. Mrs. Bertholf is the daughter of Edward and Clarissa (Cass) Corser, who are now deceased. Their family consisted of three daughters and two sons, namely: Lewis, Martha, Julia S., Charles M. and Emma Jane.

            To Mr. and Mrs. Bertholf there was born one child, a son, Charles S., who continues with his parents, and is in the store with his father. Mr. B. was in the Union service during the late war, enlisting in 1864, in the. 130th Ohio Infantry, but was only required to serve a few months, as the Rebellion was near its close. He was detailed mostly to camp duty in and around Petersburg, Va., and did not participate in any active engagement.

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