Biography of Frederick Krahn, pages 575 / 576.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Frederick Krahn, deceased, was a native of Prussia, Germany, born Aug. 25, 
1830, a son of Jacob Krahn.  He was reared in his native country, and in his 
youth served an apprenticeship at the rope-maker’s trade, which he followed 
till he came to the United States, when still a young man.  He landed in New 
York City and walked form there to Stark County, Ohio, where he was employed 
at brick making by the month for five years.  He then went into business for 
himself, and in 1863 left Ohio and came to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought 
eighty acres of land in Fairfield Township, and engaged in agricultural 
pursuits till October, 1864, when he was drafted in the defense of his 
adopted country in Company F, Thirteenth Indiana Infantry, and served till 
the spring of 1865, when, April 5, he died and was buried at Newbern N.C.  
He was married March 22, 1858, to Julia Arna, a native of Germany, where her 
parents George and Susan (Barley) Arna, died when she was a child, and when 
nineteen years of age she came to the United States.  To Mr. and Mrs. Krahn 
were born four children---William, John (deceased), Amelia and Mary N.  
Mrs. Krahn is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

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