Conrad Rotschka

Taken from: Bornmann's Sketches of Early Germans of Quincy and Adams Co., IL (Vol. 9 Chapter 1- Jan. 1909) Around the middle and to the end of the fifties of the last century, Conrad Rotschka was engaged as teacher of German and other languages at the then blossoming college in Palmyra, county seat of Marion County, Missouri which lies opposite Quincy. The institution was attended by 600 to 800 studnets, sons and daughters of plantation owners of the South. Then the War of Rebellion broke out in the Spring of 1861 and, naturally, the college at Palmyra had to be affected by it. Conrad Rotschka came with his family to Quincy, where he gave private instruction and music lessons; for a time he was also engaged as a German teacher in the high school here. After his death many years ago, his wife was employed in the high school. As far as can be determine, Conrad Rotschka came from Mittelfranken in the area between Bamberg & Wurzburg; his wife came from Switzerland. She is also no longer among the living. Three sons of the couple are still living: Eugen Rotschka, active as a mechanic at the State University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; Otto Rotschka in Beloit, Wisconsin; and Emil Rotschka in Madison, Wisconsin.