1. Frederick1 Hotze was born November 18, 1814 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, and died August 22, 1889 in Carson, Iowa at 74 years of age.
He married (1) Lavina Leiberknecht 1842 in Mason County, Kentucky. She was born 1817 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, and died 1881 in Carson, Iowa, at 64 years of age. He married (2) Charlotte Eng November 6, 1884 in Iowa.
Frederick Hotze and Lavina Leiberknecht had the following children:
+ 3 ii. Matilda Hotze, was born September 25, 1844.
+ 4 iii. Charles Augustus Hotze, was born March 7, 1846.
+ 5 iv. Louisa Hotze, was born November 4, 1847
+ 6 vi. Theodore Hotze, was born May 22, 1852.
+ 7 v. Herman Harmon Hotze, was born 1855.
+ 8 vii. William Arthur Hotze, was born October 15, 1856.
9 viii. George Hotze, was born in Mason County, Kentucky November 22, 1861. George died 1873 in Mason County, Kentucky, at 11 years of age.
+ 10 ix. Louis Lincoln Hotze, was born April 11, 1864.