History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 440, Astoria Township
Fridolie Horwidel, farmer, sec. 7; P. O., Vermont. Mr. H.
was born in Germany on the 6th of March, 1837. Receiving a
rudmentary education in his native land, in 1851 he crossed the
Atlantic for the New World, landing at Baltimore. He proceeded to
Pennsylvania where he followed his calling, that of blacksmithing, for
a number of years. In 1860 he was united in marriage with Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Riffle. She has borne him 6
children. In 1866 he settled in Fulton, where he followed farming
the first year, ans subsequently worked at his trade in Vermont, and in
1876 purchased his present farm.
