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Source:
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF MCLEAN COUNTY ILLINOIS
by Chapman Brothers, 1887

Contributed by:  Rebecca Bond, koala1701@prodigy.net, on  September 29, 1999

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CHRISTIAN P. NAFZIGER Biography

CHRISTIAN P. NAFZIGER, an excellant representive of the worthy German farming element of this region 
is comfortably located in Allin Township, on Section 18, where he is carring on the peaceful pursuit 
of agriculture, and by his upright and honest course in life has secured the respect and esteem of his 
fellow-citizens. Mr. NAFZIGER was born in Prussia, July 26, 1819, being the son of Jacob and Veronica (ROCKEY) NAFZIGER; b
oth natives of the German Empire the father born in 1797and the mother the following year.They were married in their 
native country in about 1817, and remainded there until 1853 when they set sail for the New World. After landing in 
New York City ; they proceeded immediately westward to this state and county, where the father of our subject 
purchased eighty acres of fine farming land. Upon which he resided until his death, which occured in 1886. The mother 
had died previously in 1863, after they had become the parenets of seven children, named as follows: Augustus, Eliza, 
Helen, Katie, Henerietta and C.B. Christian P. of our sketch. They were most excellant and worthy people, members of the 
Mennonite Church, and trained their children to habits of industry and ptinciples of honor. The subject of this history 
remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority and in 1855 was united in marriage with Kate NAFZIGER 
in McLean County Illinois. He reached the United States in the spring of 1840 and first went to Butler County, Ohio, where 
he lived three years. He then returned to Germany, and after a sojourn of nine years in his native land, set out once more 
for America. Then Mr NAFZIGER came to the Prairie State and this county, where he was married and where he purchased the 
farm upon which he now resides. Here he is engaged in general agri agriculture, and is devoting much time and attention to 
the breeding of graded stock. The eight children of our subject are as follows: Augustus married to Lizzie EHRSMANN, of 
Allin Township; Eliza became the wife of Christian OTTO; Minnie married Arnold UNZICKER; Emile married and gentleman of 
the same name; Katie, Julia, Bertha and Ferdinand are at home with their parents. The latter are members of the Mennonite Church, 
and our subject politrically affiliated with the Democratic Party. 



*NOTES from Rebecca Bond on 29 June 1998 - Christian NAFZIGER (the above subject) was the son of Jacob NAFZIGER (b.1800) and Veronica ROCKEY. 
The subject Christian NAFZIGER's wife, Kate NAFZIGER, was the daughter of Jacob NAFZIGER (b.1800) and Elizabeth ROCKEY. 
Christian NAFZIGER (the above subject) was the half-brother of Kate NAFZIGER, his wife.