Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934
Fred Dohrmann
birth: 1851 Hanover, Germany
father: Fred Dohrmann
mother: Christine Hener
marriage: 24 September 1887 Bremer, Iowa
spouse: Minnie Drenkhahn
parents: C. F. & Minnie D. (Frenke) Drenkhahn

Fred Dohrmann has lived in Bremer county since 1871 and during the intervening period has worked his way steadily upward to a place among substantial and representative agriculturists, his career furnishing many excellent examples of the value of resolution, courage and perseverance in the attainment of success. He was born in Hanover, Germany, July 5, 1851, and is a son of Fritz and Christine (Heuer) Dohrmann, both of whom died in the father land. Fred Dohrmann came to the United States in 1871, settling immediately in Bremer county, Iowa, where he worked on a farm, receiving for his services ten dollars per month. In 1876 he purchased eighty acres of his present farm, the tract being all wild prairie land. In the following year he bought the adjoining eighty acres and upon this was a small house twelve feet high made of boards with clapboard roof and a log stable with a thatched roof. Mr. Dohrmann has since replaced these buildings with modern and substantial ones and has added to his property a forty acre tract across the road, owning today two hundred acres. He engages in general farming and dairying and because of his unremitting industry and the practical method which he employs has met with a gratifying measure of success.
Mr. Dohrmann has been twice married. He wedded first Miss Mary Frese, who was born in Germany, a daughter of Henry Frese, of Fremont township. Mrs. Dohrmann died in 1885, leaving two children: Christine, the wife of Henry Kuhrt, of Tripoli; and W.H. a farmer of Fremont township. Mr. Dohrmann's second wife was in her maidenhood Miss Wilhelmina Drenkhahn, also a native of Germany, and they became the parents of six children: Fred, who is engaged in farming in Fremont township; John, who died at the age of three months; Hermina, the wife of Otto Westendorf, of Franklin township; Alma; Ewald; and Raymond.
Mr. Dohrmann is a member of the Lutheran church and is independent in his political views, voting for men and measures rather than parties. Through his own efforts he has risen to be one of the leading farmers of the township and he holds the esteem and confidence of a wide circle of friends.
[History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914]

Census 1880 Fremont, Bremer, Iowa
Age: 28
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Farmer
Ethnicity: American
Birthplace: Germany
Birth Date: 1852
Spouse's Name: Mary Doehrman
Spouse's Birthplace: Germany
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Self Fred Doehrman M 28 Germany
Wife Mary Doehrman F 26 Germany

Census 1900 Fremont Township Tripoli town, Bremer, Iowa
Age: 49
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Years Married: 23
Birth Date: Jul 1851
Birthplace: Germany
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1877
Immigration Year: 1871
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Head Fritz Dohrmann M 49 Germany
Wife Wilhiminnie Dohrmann F 33 Germany
Son Willie Dohrmann M 15 Iowa
Son Freddie Dohrmann M 11 Iowa
Dau Amanda Dohrmann F 7 Iowa
Dau Alma Dohrmann F 5 Iowa
Son Ewald Dohrmann M 1 Iowa
Brother William Dohrmann M 46 Germany

Census 1910 Fremont, Bremer, Iowa
Head Fred Dohrmann M 58 Germany
Wife Wilhemenia Dohrmann F 43 Germany
Son William Dohrmann M 24 Iowa
Dau Hermine Dohrmann F 17 Iowa
Dau Alma Dohrmann F 14 Iowa
Son Ewald Dohrmann M 11 Iowa

Census 1920 Frederika, Bremer, Iowa
Head Frederick Dohrmann M 68 Germany
Wife Wilhelmina Dohrmann F 53 Germany
Brother William Dohrmann M 65 Germany

Census 1930 Fremont, Bremer, Iowa
Head Frederick Dohrmann M 78 Germany
Wife Wilhelmina Dohrmann F 62 Germany
Son Raymond Dohrmann M 19 Iowa