"A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota" written in 1907 by
Alvin H. Wilcox.


John Frederick Disse 

            
Mr. Disse was born in Germany on the first day of November, 1819. He 
immigrated to America in 1847, settling in the then small city of Buffalo,
New York, and resided there twenty-seven years, when with a colony of his
countrymen, and fellow townsmen he came west a few years after the
completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad and settled in Detroit. After
living in Detroit for a year or two he removed to his homestead in the 
town of Erie where he lived on the farm, and has made his home ever since.
Mr. Disse was a man of energy and a man of influence, respected in the
town in which he resided and wherever he was known. Mr. Disse died on the
15th day of September, 1890.


Submitted by Dick Campbell <campbell45@juno.com>