The papers of the Louis Emil Schraidt family, consists of 2 linear feet of material centered on Johann Casper Schraidt of Ottawa County, Ohio. No restrictions exist on the use of this collection.
Duplication is permitted for the purposes of preservation and research.
The register was completed by Marilyn Levinson, Curator of Manuscripts in May 1996. Caspar, who was born in 1823, emigrated to the United States in 1852, settling first in Sandusky, where he worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker. Caspar was married in 1852 to Dorothea Humbert, who died in 1881. In May of 1882 he married again, to Wilhelmina Trapp, with whom he had two children, Louis Emil and Bertha. When Caspar died in 1886, his son was just a year old and his daughter was an infant.