Biography of Emanuel Neidig, pages 578 / 579.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Emanuel Neidig, is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, born Aug. 3, 1824, a 
son of Joseph and Margaret (De Koff) Neidig, natives of Pennsylvania.  He 
was reared and educated in his native county, spending his leisure time in 
his father’s blacksmith shop.  When twenty years of age he began to work at 
the carpenter’s trade, serving an apprenticeship of two months.  He was a 
natural mechanic and his employer took extra pains to explain the business 
to him. He worked at this trade in his native county till 1854, and then 
came to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought a tract of heavily timbered land in 
Fairfield Township.  He worked at this trade and hired his land cleared, and 
then attended to the cultivation of his farm in connection with his other 
work.  He has been successful in his business and now has two farms, the one 
where he lives, containing eighty acres and another of forty acres.  He was 
married July 27, 1848, to Susan Free, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, 
daughter of Peter and Hannah (Miller) Free.  To them have been born nine 
children, but three of whom are living---Cornelia, wife of Benjamin Cline, 
of Steuben County;  Henry, of Fairfield Township, and Joseph at home.  
Hannah, Anthony, Angeline, Emanuel, Peter, and an infant are deceased.  
Mr. and Mrs. Neidig are members of the German Reform church.  In politics 
he is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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