Charles Casper GROESCHEL

                   Family records show a birth date of 17 Oct 1842, although census records imply a birthdate of 1841.  1900 Census shows a birthdate of October 1841.  This will be used in conjuncion with the date of 17 Oct.

1900 Occupation: Dealer of Fruits and Cigars

1900 Census shows immigration date of 1847, and that he is naturalized.
                  

                   -Living in the "Eastern House" in 1880, a boarding house in Muscatine, Muscatine, IA.  Lists parent's birth places and own birth place as Germany.  Working as a painter, and census also notes that he is a "hunchback".
-Probate records exist for Emil Groeschel, died in 1900 in Muscatine County, IA
-Biography included in notes

1900 Census shows immigration date to be 1846, Emil is naturalized

EMIL GROESCHEL, a carriage painter and real-estate dealer of Muscatine, and a prominent citizen of the community, was born in Germany in 1846, and is the second in a family of nine children. His parents, Cahrles and Mary ( Miller ) Groeschel, were also natives of Germany, and spent their childhood days in the town of Wordingborg near the banks of the Rhine. Near that historic and beautiful river, Charles Groeschel woed and won the lady with whom for forty years he traveled life's journey. In the year 1847 they bade farewell to their native land and set sail for America, landing at Castle Garden, whence they went to Williamstown, Mass., where mr. Groeschel worked at his trade of carriage painting and trimming, which he had followed in the old country. After three years spent in that place he removed with his family to North Adams, and from there to Fort Plain in the State of New York. At length, leaving that city he came directly to the West, and for six years resided in Davenport, whence he removed to Muscatine, making it his home until his death, which occurred in August, 1883. Although a resident of this city at that time, when death occurred he was visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dr, Emies, of Carroll, Iowa, and one day dropped dead on yhe street from heart disease. He was brought back to his home by his daughter and laid to rest in the city burial ground. 

"We bore him to his slumber,And laid the turf above his breast,In a green and shady valley,Where no sound will break his rest. 
"There the winds will murmur sadly,And the night birds warble low;As they murmured there and warbledIn the springtime long ago."

(This next paragraph appears to be an obituary for Charles Groeschel)
Mr. Groeschel was a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity and was highly respected by all who knew him. The members of the family left to mourn his loss were his loving wife and six children, who are as follows : Charles, a prominent dealer in flour and grain, and a member of the Chamber of Congress at Cincinnati, Ohio ; Fremont, who married Isabel Goodman, is a commercial traveler for the firm of Myers Bros., of St. Louis, and makes his headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah ; Oscar, is a prominent real-estate dealer and a member of the firm of Groeschel,Shiley & Co., of Salt Lake City ; Matilda is the wife of A. S. Knowles ; Mary is the wife of Dr. H. T. Emies ; and Emil. 

Our subject was but four years of age when he came with his parents to America. It was in the district schools of his adopted country that he received his education, and the greater part of his life has been spent in Iowa. Arriving at man's estate he chose as his avocation for life that of a carriage painter, which trade he had learned with his father, and which he has since followed in connection with the real-estate business. He is now the owner of eight comfortable residences in Muscatine, besides the building where he carries on his business, and several lots on which he contemplates building in a short time. He is one of Muscatine's enterprising, go-ahead business men, who by his own efforts of industry and economy, notwithstanding he started in life with no capital, has accumulated a comfortable property, which will enable him to rest from the more active duties of life in his declining years. He has ever been liberal in the advancement of those interests which have for their object the good of the community. Politically, he is a stalwart Republican, having cast his ballot with that party since the days of Abraham Lincoln. Among the representative German-American citizens Mr. Groeschel deserves a representation, both in the biographical and portrait departments.
                  

                   Matilda is listed as Mary M Groeschel on the 1850 Census, and then listed as Matilda thereafter.
                  

                   Henry Prescott Emeis lists his mother as closest kin on the WWI draft card, her name is Mary Groshell Best, address is 183 R street, Salt Lake City, UT
                  

                   Family records state Fremont was born in 1856, 1900 Census shows 1855