FATHER: Nicanor Gonzalo Sanchez-Tereso
  (10 Jan 1791 - May 1851)
MOTHER: Anna Marie Weber
  (13 Jun 1798 - Oct 1853)
SPOUSE: Matilda Jane Brittain   (18 Feb 1844 - 30 Nov 1918)
AKA Sanchez-Tereso,Frederick -Genealogical data per his biography in History of Keokuk co,IA -Alternate DOB 30 Nov 1824 per AF -Appointed Court Clerk in Bavaria in 1841 -Appointed General Financial Secretary of the revolutionary Republic of Germany in 1849 at Frankfort; he held this position for 6 months until the Republic collapsed with the refusal of Frederick Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, to accept the dignity of German Emperor; subsequently, with other patriots, he crossed the Rhine into Alsace-Lorraine, then in France -He embarked at Le Havre, arriving at New York in Sep 1849; subsequently he engaged in the printing business in Philadelphia for 10 months -In 1850 he returned to New York upon the emigration of his parents & there was engaged as a translator for a publishing house -In 1851 accompanied by his parents he arrived in Jackson twp, Keokuk co,IA -In 1866 he removed to Benton twp, Keokuk co,IA & purchased a 270 acre farm in S24 near Martinsburg -Service in CIVIL WAR, enlisted as Private in Aug 1862 in Co. F, 33rd Iowa Infantry; on 2 Jun 1863 promoted to 1st Lieutenant, serving in that capacity until the end of the war; discharged 25 Jul 1865 at New Orleans
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