History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
In Dixon, Illinois, on the Ith of May, 1904, Mr. Lyman was
united in marriage to Miss Bertha Fisher, a daughter of Jacob
and Elma (White) Fisher, the former a pioneer farmer of Wil-
low Creek township, while both are now residing in Searboro,
attend-
Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Ljanan have two children : Bruce,
ing school ; and Floyd, who is not yet of school age.
Mr. Lyman votes with the republican party, and reading keeps
him in touch with the vital questions and issues of the day. He
holds membership with the Modern Woodmen camp. He and his
wife are worthy young people, enjoying the warm regard of many
friends, and their own home is a hospitable one. Realizing at the
outset of his career that there is no royal road to wealth, Mr. Lyman
has always depended upon the substantial qualities of indxis-
try and perseverance for the attainment of success.
AUGUST C. GRIESE.
August C. Griese, one of the prosperous and representative
citizens of Bi-adford township, owning and ojierating seventy-five
acres of land on section 1, was born in this township, March 3,
1875. He is a son of Civiacus and Anna K. (Becker) Griese, natives
of Germany who came to America in the '60s, settling in Lee
county. The father died in 1888 and is survived by his wife, who
makes her home in Franklin Grove. She has been twice married
and previous to her union with the father of the subject of this
review was Mrs. Webber.
August C. Griese was reared in Bradford township and
acquired his education in the public schools of this locality. He
married in 1897 and in the same year purchased seventy-five acres
of land on section 1, Bradford township. He still makes his home
upon this property and has developed and improved it along prac-
tical lines. He has valuable farming aud stock-raisiug interests
here, and he owns also three hundi'ed and twenty acres of improved
land in Cass county, neai' Fargo, North Dakota.
Mr. Griese mai-iied ^liss Elizabeth Zimiiel, who was born in
Germany, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Oesterheld) Zimpel,
also natives of the fatherland. The parents came to America
in 1882 and located in Lee county, Illinois, where both now reside.
They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom are still
living. Mr. and Mrs. Griese have two children: Vera B., who was
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