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dier in the Civil war had been terminated Mr. Allyn wisely girded himself the better for the active duties and responsibilities of life by taking unto himself a wife. He wedded Miss Juliette Eddy, who was born in the State of Vermont, as were also her parents, Joseph and Celeste Eddy, with whom she came to Iowa in the pio- neer days, her parents passing the remainder of their lives in this state. Mr. and Mrs. Allyn shared with mutual solicitude and loy- alty the joys and sorrows of life, and their ideal companionship found its greatest glory in the gracious evening of their lives, the silver cord of their devotion being severed in 1901, when Mrs. Allyn was summoned to eternal rest, her memory being revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle influence and her mortal remains resting in the cemetery at Kandallville, Winneshiek county, not far distant from her old home. She is survived by two children, William, who has practical charge of the old homestead farm, and Juliette, who remains with her father and presides over the attractive home; she is popular in the social life of the com- munity and was graduated in the high school at McGregor.
Conrad Andrea has maintained his home in Clayton county from his boyhood and has here brought his energies to bear so effectively as to win for himself a large measure of material pros- perity in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-raising, of which he is now one of the prominent and honored exponents in Sperry township. His parents were pioneer settlers of this county and still reside here, venerable in years and estab- lished in a home in which they find peace and comfort in the gra- cious evening of their long and useful life. Conrad Andreæe was born at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 20th of November, 1856, and is a son of Albert and Magdalena Prottengeier Andreæ, who were born and reared in Germany and who immigrated to America in the early '50s. They established their home in Dubuque, Iowa, and about 1853 they came to Clayton county and settled on a farm in Sperry township. Later they removed to Wisconsin, but about two years later they returned to Clayton county, where they have since maintained their home. Of their nine children seven are living. Conrad Andreæ remained at the parental home until the time of his marriage, and in the meanwhile had made good use of the advantages of the common schools. At the age of twenty- three years he wedded Miss Anna Weege, who has the distinction of having been the first white child born in St. Sebald, Sperry township, this county, where her parents established their home in the early pioneer days. After his marriage Mr. Andreæ farmed on rented land for two years and he then purchased a portion of his present well improved farm of two hundred acres, in Section 19, Sperry township, the excellent improvements on the place hav- ing been made by him and his well directed efforts having resulted in his developing one of the really model farmsteads of this favored section of his native state. He is one of the prosperous farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Clayton county, is a Democrat in politics, takes a lively interest in community affairs, but has never sought or held public office. Both he and his wife are communi-
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cants of the Lutheran church, and of their eight children the last two died young; Henry is cashier of the Volga Savings Bank; George, Herman, Katherine, Albert and Frederick remain at the parental home.
Henry C. Andreae is the efficient and popular cashier of the Volga Savings Bank and is known and valued as one of the repre- sentative business men of the younger generation in his native county. He was born in Sperry township, this county, on the 7th of October, 1883, and is a son of Conrad and Anna (Wege) Andreae, the former of whom was born in Dubuque, this state, and the latter of whom was born in Clayton county, both families hav- ing been founded in Iowa in the pioneer period of its history. The parents now reside in their pleasant home near Arlington, Fayette county, and the father has been a prominent and influential expo- nent of agricultural enterprise in this section of the Hawkeye state, both he and his wife being zealous communicants of the Lutheran church and the lineage of both tracing back to staunch German origin. Of the eight children the eldest is George, who remains with his parents on the home farm ; Henry C., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Katherine is at the parental home, as are also Her- man and Albert; Philippina is deceased; Frederick is the youngest member of the parental home circle ; and William died in early child- hood. After having profited fully by the advantages afforded in the dis- trict schools Henry C. Andreae continued his active association with agricultural industry for three years, and he then fortified himself more fully for the practical affairs of life by completing a two years' course in the Upper Iowa Business University, at Fayette. For a short time thereafter he was identified with the general mer- chandise business and he then assumed a clerical position in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, his service having been continued in Clayton county for a period of four years, after which he held for six months the position of money clerk in the office of the Wells-Fargo Express Company in the city of Milwaukee. The impaired health of his loved mother caused him to resign this position and return to the parental home, and in 1910 he accepted his present responsible post, that of cashier of the Volga Savings Bank, an incumbency in which he has shown marked discrimination and executive ability. His political alle- giance is given to the Democratic party and both he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran church in their home village of Volga, where also they are popular factors in the leading social activities of the community. On the 2d of May, 1913, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Andreae to Miss Selma Piehl, who was born and reared in Clayton county, and they have a winsome little daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who was born May 12, 1915.
George Aulerich was a youth of nineteen years when he came with his widowed mother from his German Fatherland to America and established a home in Iowa, where it has been his to gain through earnest and honest endeavor a generous measure of suc- cess and to become one of the most substantial landholders and exponents of agricultural industry in Clayton county. Here he has
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maintained his home for half a century and here he resides upon his fine homestead farm in Farmersburg township, though the autumn of the year 1916 will record his attainment of the psalm- ist's span of three score years and ten. The gracious prosperity that attends him in his venerable years enables him to put aside the heavier burdens and labors that were so long his portion. He is one of the substantial and honored citizens of the county, is the owner of a large and well improved landed estate of nearly six hundred acres in this county, and none is more clearly entitled to representation in this history. Mr. Aulerich was born in Germany, on the 30th of September, 1846, and is a son of George and Dora (Schultz) Aulerich, the former of whom passed his entire life in Germany, where his vocation was that of farming. In 1866 the widowed mother came with her three children to the United States and established a home in Clayton county, Iowa, where she passed the remainder of her life and attained to the venerable age of 81 or 82. Of the children two are living. He whose name introduces this review gained his early education in the excellent schools of his native land and was nineteen years of age when he accompanied his mother to the United States and to Clayton county. Here he found employment as a farm hand for several years, and in the meanwhile he carefully saved his earnings and bent every energy to the gaining of independence and worthy pros- perity. Finally he purchased a farm of seventy acres, in Farmers- burg township, and upon the same he continued his residence six- teen years, his energy and good management having brought to him such measure of success that he was then enabled to sell his farm to advantage and purchase a portion of the fine homestead on which he now resides. With increasing prosperity he continued to add to his landed estate until he became the owner of two hun- dred and fifteen acres of fine land in section 6, Farmersburg town- ship, upon which splendid domain he still retains his residence and to the supervision of which he still gives his vigorous attention, as the years rest lightly upon him. At a later period he purchased other land to the amount of three hundred and sixty acres, situated in Monona township, and this property is given over to the care of his oldest son, who is a substantial agriculturist and progressive citizen of his native county. Mr. Aulerich has been deeply appre- ciative of the opportunities which have been afforded him in the county and state of his adoption, and has stood exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship. He is a staunch Democrat in politics but has had no desire for public office, the only position of the sort in which he has consented to serve having been that of member of the school board of his district. He and his wife are earnest com- municants and liberal supporters of the Lutheran church at Farm- ersburg. In 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Aulerich to Miss Minnie Klinge, who was born in Germany, one of a family of six children, all of whom are living and all of whom came with the parents, Frederick and Elizabeth (Holtz) Klinge, to the United States in the year 1871, the family home being established in Clay- ton county, where the father became a substantial farmer and where
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he passed the rest of his life, the venerable mother being still a resident of this county and being nearly ninety years of age at the time of this writing, 1916. Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Aulerich the eldest is George, Jr., who is one of the progres- sive farmers of this county, as is also Henry, who remains at the parental home and is associated with his father in the management of the farm; Bertha is the wife of Charles Engelhardt and they reside in the state of South Dakota; Matilda is a trained nurse by profession and resides in the city of Chicago; Amelia and Emma remain at the parental home; and Emil is another of the aggressive young farmers of Clayton county, where he has a farm of one hun- dred and fifty acres in Monona township.
Herman A. Axtell may well consider himself fortunate in being the owner of one of the fine farm estates of Clayton county and further interest attaches to his prestige as one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the county by reason of the fact that he was an infant at the time of the family removal to this county and was reared to manhood on the farm which he now owns and on which he has an ideal rural home. Mr. Axtell was born in Lorain county, Ohio, on the 17th of September, 1862, and in the following year his parents came to Clayton county and settled on the farm now owned by him. He is one of the five surviving children of Augustus E. and Martha (Bartlett) Axtell, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of the state of New York. After having maintained their residence in Ohio for a term of years the parents came to Clayton county, Iowa, in 1863, as previously noted, and the father proved a resourceful and broad- minded member of the pioneer community, in which he developed and improved the splendid landed estate now owned and occupied by his son Herman A., of this review. Here he died at the age of 85 years and here his venerable widow still resides, she having celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday anniversary in 1916 and being one of the revered pioneer women of the county. Reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, Herman A. Axtell was not permitted to neglect in the least the advantages afforded in the public schools of the locality and period, and his individual ambition along this line was indicated by his later completing an effective course of study in a business college at Fayette. He continued to be asso- ciated with the work and management of the home farm until he was 21 years of age, and thereafter he was employed for a total of five years in a creamery at Cresco, Howard county, and Clayton county, where he gained expert knowledge of this line of indus- trial enterprise. For twenty years thereafter he rented the old homestead farm of his parents and proved himself one of the spe- cially alert, progressive and successful farmers and stock-growers of the county. At the expiration of the period noted he purchased the fine property, which comprises two hundred acres of land, in sections 24 and 25 Cass township which is improved with the best type of farm buildings and supplied with the most approved mod- ern facilities. In connection with diversified agriculture Mr. Axtell has been specially prominent and successful in the breeding
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and raising of fine Shorthorn cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine. He has served consecutively since 1910 as township clerk, has been secretary of the school board of his district since 1902, and served fourteen years as township assessor. These preferments denote alike his loyal interest in public affairs of a local order, his ability and the high estimate placed upon him in the community that had always represented his home. He gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party, is affiliated with the Modern Brotherhood of America and he and his wife attend and support the Baptist church at Strawberry Point, from which village their attractive and hos- pitable home has service on rural mail route No. 1. In 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Axtell to Miss Leah Lamphiear, who was born and reared in this county and who is a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Lamphiear, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom still maintains her home in this county. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Axtell the first, Fern C., died at the age of 12 years; Lloyd W. now has the management of the fine farm of three hundred and forty-five acres which his father owns in Stutsman county, North Dakota; Fannie M. was gradu- ated in the Teachers' Institute at Cedar Falls and is now a popular teacher in the public schools of Riceville, Iowa; Meron A. is a member of the class of 1918 in the Iowa State Agricultural College, at Ames; Howard I. is attending the high school at Strawberry Point; and the two younger members of the ideal home circle are Herma R. and Martha E.
Henry C. Baars is associated with his next younger brother, Fritz, in the operation of the fine old homestead farm, in Section 36 Highland township, that figures as the place of their birth, and they are known as progressive and energetic young agriculturists and stock-growers of their native county, with secure place in pop- ular esteem. Henry C. Baars was born on this farm on the 29th of August, 1888, and is a son of Henry and Augusta (Adam) Baars, the former of whom was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, and the latter in West Prussia. Henry Baars was a young man when he came to the United States, and in 1869 he came to Clayton county and established his home in Cox Creek township. He later re- moved to and improved one of the fine farms of Highland town- ship, and he and his wife now reside at Elkader, the county seat, where he is living retired, after having won substantial prosperity through his long and effective association with farm industry. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife are earnest com- municants of the Lutheran church. Herman, the eldest of their seven children, is a prosperous farmer in Sperry township; Henry C. and Fritz, as already noted, are associated in the operations of the old home farm, which comprises two hundred acres, and Fritz was here born on the 17th of November, 1890; Albert died in child- hood, as did also Hilda; and Alfred and Carrie remain at the pa- rental home. Henry C. Baars is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early education, and he continued to assist in the operation of the home farm until he was twenty years old. He passed the following years in South Dakota, then resumed
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his association with the work of the home farm and one year later he and his brother Fritz assumed the active control and manage- ment of the fine old homestead, upon which they have since con- tinued their successful operations in diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent live stock. The subject of this review is serving as school director of his district, is a Democrat in his polit- ical adherency and both he and his wife hold membership in the Lutheran church. Mr. Baars is married to Miss Katherine Kuehl, daughter of Joseph J. Kuehl, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work.
John Bahr is actively associated with one of the representative business enterprises of the vigorous little city of Elkader, judicial center of Clayton county, and has made an excellent record in his chosen vocation. He is a skilled artisan, and has entire charge of the plumbing and heating departments of the substantial hardware establishment in which he owns a half interest, as junior member of the firm of Brown & Bahr, in which his coadjutor is H. D. Brown. From infancy he has borne the name of his step-father, and he is a son of Frank and Sophie (Muller) Schornable, being an only child. By his father's previous marriage there was one son, Frank, and his mother later became the wife of Peter Bahr. Of the children of this last marriage the following brief record is consistently given at this point: Mary and Lena reside at Elkport, this county; Sophia is the wife of George Smith, and Clara the wife of John Wittman, both likewise residents of Elkport; Annie resides in the city of Cedar Rapids, this State; Eliza is the wife of Ernest Heuschen, of McGregor, Clayton county ; and one daughter died in infancy. John Bahr, the immediate subject of this sketch, was born in Volga township, this county, on the 14th of December, 1870, and there he attended in boyhood the district schools, though his broader education has been that gained under the direction of that wisest of all head-masters, experience. As a lad of fourteen years he became virtually dependent upon his own resources, as he then left the home rooftree and found employment at farm work. One year later he established his residence in Elkader, where he entered the employ of his present business associate, Mr. Brown, and served a practical apprenticeship to the tinner's trade. Later he purchased a half interest in the business, to the expansion and definite success of which he has contributed effectively, and it is interesting to record that he became a partner in the thriving enter- prise before he had attained to his legal majority. Fidelity, con- secutive industry and sterling integrity have marked his business career, and have given him inviolable place in popular esteem, besides which he has won substantial place as one of the vigorous and enterprising business men of his native county. He has shown deep interest in community affairs and has been a member of the board of aldermen of Elkader for thirteen years, his services in this office having been marked by the same spirit of progressiveness and loyalty that has dominated his course in his private business. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the Republican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen of the
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World, and both he and his wife are communicants of the German Lutheran church. On the 21st of March, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bahr to Miss Kate Wertley, who likewise was born and reared in this county, and of their two children the first, a daughter, died in infancy, the surviving child, Harry John, having been born February 21, 1903, and being at the present time, 1916, a duly ambitious student in the public schools of Elkader.
Edward E. Bauder is one of the representative younger expo- nents of agricultural industry in his native county and his progres- siveness is shown in his availing himself of the most modern and approved facilities and methods in carrying forward the operations of the fine old homestead farm, in section 7, Marion township, where additional interest attaches to his activities by reason of the fact that the farm that thus receives his attention was the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 4th of August, 1885. He is a son of Samuel and Caroline (Riorke) Bauder, the former of whom was born in the fair little republic of Switzerland and the latter of whom was born and reared in Iowa, a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of this commonwealth. Samuel Bauder came to America when a youth and he became one of the success- ful agriculturists and representative citizens of Marion township, Clayton county ; his widow maintains her home in Elgin, Fayette county. Of the six children the eldest is Alfred, who is now a resident of the city of Cedar Rapids, this state; Mary is the widow of Knudt Scarshaug of Elgin; Emma is the wife of Ole Olson, of Clermont, Fayette county ; Anna is the wife of Lewis J. Grouth, of Elgin, Fayette county ; Edward E. is a successful farmer of Marion township and figures as the immediate subject of this sketch; and Ernest is now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan. The father of these children died when Edward was a boy of nine years. Edward E. Bauder was reared to adult age on the home farm of which he now has the active management and is indebted to the public schools of Clayton county for his early educational disci- pline. His career as an independent agriculturist was initiated when he was twenty years of age and he has shown remarkable circumspection and progressiveness in the directing of the opera- tions of the old homestead farm. Under his supervision have been installed many improvements of the best modern type, including a silo that has a capacity for the storage of one hundred tons, and a gas engine for supplying water for both farm and domestic pur- poses. Mr. Bauder has made his general farm operations distinc- tively successful and in connection with diversified agriculture he is giving special attention to the raising of the large type of Poland-China swine, the best specimens of this breed being found in appreciable numbers on his farm. He has insistently bred to the best type, as is shown by his paying one hundred and ten dollars for one pure-bred and registered brood sow and eighty dol- lars for another, besides which he is the owner of the well-known boar, "Big Black Orange," the registered number of which is 226,579, and thus he has the best breeding stock, with resultant prominence as one of the leading breeders of Poland-China swine
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in this part of Iowa. As a citizen Mr. Bauder is loyal and progres- sive, even as he is in connection with the affairs of business, and he is aligned as a supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party. His home place receives mail service on a rural route from the village of Elgin, which is his postoffice address. On the 24th of February, 1910, Mr. Bauder wedded Miss Alma Bakeman, who was born and reared in this county and who is a daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Underwood) Bakeman.
Frederick W. Bauer .- The admirable agricultural resources of Clayton county have constituted the secure basis of its progress and prosperity, and as exponents of the great fundamental industry of farming there are found at the present time a goodly number of alert and valued representatives of the second generation of fami- lies whose names have been prominently and worthily linked with the development and advancement of this section of the state. Frederick W. Bauer is one of the native sons of Clayton county, who holds prestige as one of the substantial agriculturists and rep- resentative citizens of Boardman township, where he owns and operates a well improved farm of one hundred and eighty acres. Mr. Bauer was born in Garnavillo township, this county, on the 31st of August, 1869, and is a son of William and Emma (Hoch- hause) Bauer, both of whom were born in Germany. William Bauer was a child when he accompanied his parents on their im- migration to America, and the family home was established in the State of Ohio, where he was reared to adult age and received a good common school education. As a young man he came to Iowa and numbered himself among the pioneers of Clayton county. He purchased a tract of land in Garnavillo township and reclaimed the same into a productive farm. In the late '80s he sold this property advantageously and soon afterward purchased the farm now occu- pied by his son, Frederick W., the immediate subject of this sketch. Here he continued his successful activities as a thrifty and pro- gressive agriculturist and stock-grower until about 1906, since which time he and his wife have maintained their residence in the city of Dubuque, where he is living virtually retired, in the enjoyment of the tangible rewards of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. He contributed his quota to the development of Clayton county along both civic and industrial lines and both he and his wife have a wide circle of friends in this county. They are zealous commu- nicants of the Catholic church and his political affiliation is with the Democratic party. Of the children the eldest is he whose name introduces this article; Elizabeth is the wife of Max Ovitz and they maintain their home at Elkader, the judicial center of this county ; Otilla is the wife of Joseph Schiltz, of Dubuque ; Agnes is the wife of Paul Schammel, of Waterloo, this state; Charles and Irma are with their parents in Dubuque; and Amelia died in child- hood. Frederick W. Bauer reverts to the excellent public schools of his native county as the medium through which he acquired his early education, and his initial experience in connection with the practical affairs of life was that gained in his early association with the work of the home farm. This discipline, continued through the
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