Adam Birk

BIRK, SHAFER

Posted By: Joanne Williams (email)
Date: 7/14/2007 at 06:09:13

History of Cedar Co., Iowa, 1878

Center Township

Birk, Adam, farmer; Sec. 31; P. O. Tipton; born in Oakley, Ohio., and then came to Linn Co., Iowa, in 1854; lived there fourteen years and came to this town and county in 1869; has lived here nine years; engaged in farming; owns a farm of eighty acres adjoining the town. Was in the army; enlisted in the 14th I. V. I., Co. H; was in battles of Ft. Donelson and Shiloh, and injured his back working one of the guns in the battery. Married Miss Emeline Shafer, from Pennsylvania, July 4th, 1865; they have three children--Annie Louise, Mary and Maggie.