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1.6   Julius Florian Rasch
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Birth Date:	July 16,1842
Birth Place:	Olbersdorf, Silesia, Prussia
Death Date:	February 18, 1880
Death Place:	Grand Rapids, MI
Burial:		Oak Hill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI
Father:		Florian Rasch I (1791-1855)
Mother:		Barbara Gutkorn (1804-1843)

Notes:
Arrived in the US ca.1854.

Civil War Vet., enlisted in the Union Army on April 18, 1861, for a 3-year term.
Assigned to Company A, 2nd Infantry of the Michigan Infantry.  He was wounded at
Williamsburg, VA, on May 5, 1862, receiving a disability discharge on September
13, 1862.  He returned to Michigan where he ran a grocery store in Grand Rapids.

Visited German relatives in Silesia from 1872 to 1874.

He never married.

Research:
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