A BRIEF SKETCH OF MARTIN GOTTLIEB FAERBER
                                                                        1809-1900
                                                          Compiled by Gerald Faerber
 	Martin Gottlieb Faerber was the first child born to Johann Erdmann  Faerber and Henriette Mielke. He was born November 18,  1809 in Grunwald, Prussia.  His parents were married October 21, 1808 in Grunwald.  His father was a farmer. There were six other brothers and sisters.  Three of whom lived to adulthood.  Gottfried Ferdinand was born November 23, 1811. A stillborn son arrived October 20, 1812.  Marie Sophie Charlotte was born May 3, 1814. She was followed by Friedrich Wilhelm who was born October 21, 1816.  Johann Chreistlieb was born July 20, 1819, but he only lived until January 30 1827.  The last child was Dorothee Henriette, who was born February 26, 1822.  She only lived until July 2, 1830.
	 Martin Gottlieb met and married Dorothee Friedericke Reinke.  She was also born in Grunwald on August 8, 1811. Her parents were Johann Reinke a shoemaker and Dorothee Rogge.  They were married  the 5th of May 1835 in Grunwald.  Their first child was Carl Martin born November 15, 1835.  Their second son Heinrich Ludwig was born January 9, 1838.  However, he only lived for five days.  The next son Friedrich August was born  a  year later on January 6, 1839.  The first daughter,  Caroline Wilhelmine, was born April 26, 1841. Friedrich  Albert was born October 31, 1844.  These last two children died on March 31, 1847 of cholera.  Friedrich  Eduard was born  February 20 1848.  The last child Caroline Auguste Henriette was born August 8, 1850. The family resided in Grunwald at least until 1850.  Later when they emigrated to America, the records indicate they were from Raddatz.  This was a small town about 11 miles south of Grunwald.  The  main city nearby was Neustettin. This was in the region of Prussia known as Pommern. ( Today this is near Szsecinek, Poland).
	Carl was the first son to leave for America in 1865. He was followed by August in 1867 and Friedrich in 1872. Gottlieb’s son August Faerber had settled in Camden township, Carver County, Minnesota.  He had saved his money and sent for his parents and sister to join them.  In 1873 Gottlieb and his wife Friederike and daughter Caroline left Prussia from the port of Hamburg. They changed ships in Liverpool, England and arrived on the Hansa in New York on May 27, 1873. Gottlieb was 64 years old at this time.  His youngest son had just died from a lightning strike in Heitz Lake, when they arrived.  For the next few years the family lived together with August Faerber in Camden township, Carver County, Minnesota..  The oldest son Carl had settled further North in Minnesota.  In January 1875, August Faerber married Dorothee Westermann.  In November 1875 Caroline Faerber married Ernest Schwartz also in Carver County.  Gottlieb and Friderike Faerber continued to live with August Faerber. 
	By 1885 Gottlieb Faerber had separated from Friderike and was living with a German family named John Steinhagen in Waconia, Carver Co. Later one story had him living on an island in one of the many lakes in Carver County.  Friederike Reinke Faerber died April 2, 1886 and was buried in Camden township.  A granddaughter Lina Faerber remembers Gottlieb coming to visit them in the 1890s.  He would put syrup in his coffee.  No further record is available until the 1900 census which lists Gottlieb in St Peters Hospital in St Peters, Minnesota.  He died on August 14, 1900, in his 91st year.