Kentuckiana Genealogy: Biographies: Ailer, Fred

By Dee Pavey (Dee) on Wednesday, July 21, 1999 - 08:49 pm:

Fred Ailer was born in Baden, Germany, in 1822, and is a son of Dennis and Barbara Ailer, natives of that country. They
came to America when Fred was seven years old and located in Baltimore, when he (Fred's father) worked on a railroad at
fifty cents a day. Two years later they moved to another part of the state and he engaged in the lumber business, which he
followed for three years, when he went to the Alleghany mountains and kept a boarding house for a year and a half. He then
removed to Ohio, where he lived two years; then came to Floyd county, Ind., and kept a boarding house on the Paoli Pike,
near Mooresville; then moved on a farm in Daviess county, near Washington; from there he went to Celestine, Dubois county,
where he kept a grocery and was squire. He died in 1845, while holding that position.

Fred went to the Mexican War with Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Knafe of the First Regiment of Indiana. In 1847 he returned from
there to his home in New Albany, where he has been ever since engaged in contract work.

He was married January 9, 1847, to Nancy A. Brands, daughter of Tobias and Violet (MacFarland)Brands, of this county.
They have one child, adopted,-Hattie, wife of Edward C. Burton, of Indianapolis. He is a Democrat and a member of the
Catholic Church.

Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott
and Washington
John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago 1889

By Board Administration (Admin) (74.128.208.31) on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 03:41 pm:

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