The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 396 FRED LINIGER. Switzerland has furnished many valuable citizens to the United States and among the number is Fred Liniger, who was born January 27, 1867, in the land of the Alps. He is now a successful agriculturist on the Tieton, owning twenty acres of valuable land, largely devoted to hay, potatoes and grain, while he also does some orcharding. His parents were Frederick and Selma Liniger, both now deceased. The father followed agricultural pursuits as well as stock dealing throughout his life and also successfully engaged in the meat business. In 1886 at the age of nineteen, Fred Liniger arrived in the United States and for seventeen years was successfully engaged in farming in Allegan county, Michigan, at the end of which period, or in 1903, he came to Yakima county. He bought fifteen acres of land on the Moxee, which he sold in 1911, and purchased twenty acres on the Tieton, which property he has since greatly improved. He raises hay, potatoes and grain and also has one acre in orchard. A substantial farmhouse as well as other suitable buildings stand as a monument to his thrift and industry. On the 4th of March, 1893, Mr. Liniger was united in marriage to Mary Plosted, a native of Germany, who at the age of ten years was brought to the United States and passed her girlhood in Michigan. To Mr. and Mrs. Liniger were born six children: Clara, the wife of Otto Precious, who is with the British army in France; Alice, the wife of Albert Beddo, a resident of Yakima; Mabel, who resided with her sister Clara in Seattle: and Nellie, Reuben and Gilbert, all at home. Mr. and Mrs. Liniger are devoted members of the Evangelical Lutheran church, to which they are ever ready to give assistance. In his political affiliations Mr. Liniger is independent, voting for the man whom he considers best fitted for the office to which he aspires. He has many friends in his neighborhood, all of whom are agreed as to his high qualities of heart and mind. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.