Friedrich Henry was the second of eight children of Johannes Anton Anhorn and his second wife Christina Stadel. He was born in Beresina, Bessaria (South Russia), to a family that had migrated from Germany in an earlier generation. At age ten, on the ship Spree out of Bremen, he came to Ellis Island NY with his family. They immediately migrated to North Dakota, where they took up a homestead claim in Wells County.

Fred married twice, fathering 23 children, nine with his first wife Odiela Zarbock (1884-1914) and fourteen with his second wife Lidia Olga (Lillie) Ribling (1898-1988). He farmed in McLean and Ward counties, North Dakota. The early years from the time of Delia's death in August 1914 until he settled again with a new wife in 1916 and began a second family were difficult for Fred. He and Delia's youngest child Adolf had been born earlier in the year she died and was adopted in 1915 and became Leo Kenneth Hippe. In the spring of 1916, before his second marriage to Lillie in July that year, Fred was arrested for failing to put his children in school. But by 1920, Fred and Lillie were raising the older children and beginning their own family.

Early in 1921, however, Fred and Lillie lost their farm through default on the mortgage which had been obtained in October 1919. In Dec. 1925, Fred and his son Jacob traveled to Torquay, Saskatchewan, to explore options for the family there. They were admitted to Canada as immigrants. Fred evidently traveled back and forth from CA to ND during this period, according to the dates of his children's births in the early 1920s, but in 1927, 1929, 1932, and 1933, five of his and Liiie's children (including one set of twins) were born in Torquay. By 1935, the family were back in North Dakota, where the last three of their children were born. The state census of 1935 finds them in Iota Flat, Ward County, where they also lived in 1940.

In 1950, Fred and Lillie were separated and Lillie lived with her four youngest children, Eleanor (Kloehn), Marvin, Richard, and Marcella, in Velva, McHenry County, ND. Fred died in Brillion, Ward County, ND in 1959 and is buried in Hope Lutheran Cemetery in Sawyer.
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Please see Findagrave Memorial # 12156989 for a detailed biography of Fred's first wife Odiea Zarbock.
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Fred's second wife Lillian Olga Ribling was the eighth of nine children of Otto Gotthilf and Malvine Auguste Bonin Riebling, immigrants to Minnesota (and eventually to Canada) from Germany (then, Prussia). Her parents married in 1887 in Minnesota. Malvine was the widow Volkmann at the time.

Lillie was born in MN in 1898 but arrived in CA in 1906 and appears with her family in the Canadian census of 1911 in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. In Torquay, Saskatchewan on 9 July 1916, she married Friedrich Henry Anhorn as his second wife. (See his biography for more information about why he was in Canada at that time). By 1920 (and again in 1930 and 1940), the federal census finds them in Iota Flat, Ward County, ND. Their next years are described in Fred's biography.

Lillie and Fred separated before 1950, when she is living in Velva, ND, with her four youngest children. She survived Fred by nearly three decades and died in 1988 in Ronan Lake, MT, where her youngest child Marcella lived. She is buried in Ronan Cemetery in Ronan, Lake County, Montana.