Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Nicholas WELTER, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Gooding's Grove; was born in Moltzh, Rhenish 
Prussia, Germany, Nov. 16, 1841; he lived there until he was 15 years old, when he 
came to America (1857) and first went to Chicago, staying there three or four years; 
in 1864, he came to Will County and settled upon his farm; in 1872, kept store at 
Gooding's Grove P. O., and came to where he now lives the year after. Married Maggie 
MEYER, of Prussia, in Chicago, in January, 1862; she was born April 13, 1843; they 
had nine children - Katie, born Oct. 27, 1863; Lina, Oct. 13, 1864, died Aug. 11, 
1865; Nicholas, born Nov. 15, 1866; Lizzie, Aug. 6,1868; Mathew, Sept. 15, 1869, 
died in October, 1874; Cecilia, born Jan. 25, 1872; Christian, May 4,1873; Susie, 
Sept. 15, 1875, and Maggie, July 3, 1877.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.