This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rassier, Flesch Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1289 Message Board Post: The citation for the book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H.Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page: 457 St. Joseph Township NICOLAS RASSIER, for twenty-seven years a resident of Sterns county, and one of the first settlers in St. Joseph, is a native of Losheim, Germany, born on the 19th of January, 1828. His father owned a large farm on which Nicholas was employed during his residence in the old country. In 1852, he came to America, and after a short stay in the Atlantic States, came to Detroit, Michigan, residing in that city and vicinity, nearly two years. He then visited Indiana and Chicago, after which he came to Sterns county ( not then organized) on the 9th of November, 1854. He selected the claim on which he now lives, near St. Joseph, the same year, and has grown up with the country, taking an active interest in the progressive affairs of his neighborhood, and holding a number of important local offices, the duties of which he has discharged with marked ability. Miss Susan Flesch, of Wisconisn, became the wife of Mr. Rassier, on the 4th of June, 1857. Of nine children which they ha! ve had, but seven are living.