Caspar  Nehus  was born  in  Logabirum,  Ostfriesland, Feb.5,1847  and
derived his education from  the instructions of the Lutheran parochial
schools, which  he attended the first  eleven years of  his life. From
eleven to  fourteen he was  a student in  a Catholic school,  at which
time he was apprenticed to learn the cooper's trade, and after the old
country fashion, spent seven years in mastering it. When he was of age
his first step was  to make his way to America. He  landed in New York
after a voyage  of sixty days and without  delay continued his journey
to Freeport.

John Nehus Jr., the father of  the subject of this article, was born in
the village of Loga, in  the province of Ostfriesland, Hannover in the
fall  of 1820 and  died October  20, 1871.  He also  was a  cooper and
worked at his trade in Freeport after coming to this country in 1868.

John Nehus Sr., the grandfather of Casper, died in Germany when over
eighty-five years old. He was a cooper by trade and worked at it until
he was eighty. He was a soldier in the German contingent that followed
Napoleon into Russia, and he was one of the few that returned alive
from that disastrous expedition.

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I put together these three paragraphs, which were apparently from a
biography of Caspar.  I don't know any publication details, if the
order of paragraphs is correct, or if there was more text.  These
three paragraphs were included in a list of Nehus descendents emailed
to me in 2003.