STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
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Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 113
Out in the vicinity of Exeter, in fact joining right up to the village, lives Henry Rolf. He is another evidence of what German thrift and industry will accomplish, and also shows that in Scott county it is possible for a poor boy to accumulate property and become well fixed in the world. Henry Rolf was born in the Province of Boor, Germany, June 24, 1852. When he was thirteen years of age he came with the family to America and settled in Ohio county, Indiana, not far from Aurora, Dearborn county.
March 3, 1875, Mr. Rolf left home, came to Meredosia, Morgan county, Illinois, and farmed there for a couple of years. March 8, 1877, he was married to Miss Mary Marsh of Meredosia. Mrs. Rolf is a daughter of Henry and Clara (Hirschmeyer) Marsh, and was reared in the neighborhood of Meredosia. To them twelve children were born, all living. They are: Henry, married Miss Kate Staegeman; Fritz, married Miss Minnie Krebs; Clara, now Mrs. William Reuter; Laura, Emma, Frank, Albert, Charlie, Flora, Willie, Mary, and Irwin.
After his marriage Mr. Rolf moved over into Scott county and for eleven years lived two miles south of Naples. He then moved to the Clear lake neighborhood and bought a farm. Eight years later he bought a farm two miles east of the one upon which he was then living and moved there. Six years later he disposed of all his holdings in the bottoms, and bought the William A. Peak farm adjoining Exeter on the south, where he has since lived.
His present farm is comprised of 395 acres, and all of it fine land. He devotes his time principally to general farming, yet he raises considerable stock and all of it is prime stuff. He knows what he is doing and how to do it to a profit and ranks high up among the county's successful farmers. He is a democrat, and a staunch one; a member of the German Evangelical church at Oxville, and a very pleasant gentleman.