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of the home circle of one of his uncles who was a farmer in this county. He assisted his uncle in the work and management of the farm for a period of thirteen years and he then married and estab- lished his residence on a farm which he rented for the ensuing five years. At the expiration of this period he purchased his present well improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Section 33, Read township, where also he owns an additional tract of ten acres of timber land. He is one of the progressive and energetic farmers and stock-growers of Clayton county and substantial success is at- tending his well ordered endeavors, the while he may well take pride in the excellent improvements and general air of thrift which mark his farm as one of the model places of Read township. He is a Republican in politics, is serving at the time of this writing, in 1916, as treasurer of the school board of his district, and both he and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church. In the year 1901, March 27, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hagensick to Miss Freda Diers, who was born and reared in Read township, and who is one of the four surviving children of Freder- ick W. and Margaret (Schneider) Diers, who were children at the time of the immigration of their parents to America and who now reside upon their fine homestead farm in Read township. Mr. and Mrs. Hagensick have four children, whose names and birth dates are here noted: Ada M., February 8, 1903; Amos F., July 11, 1905 ; Milton H., July 27, 1908, and Lloyd A., October 23, 1913.
Philip B. Haid has been a resident of Clayton county since 1903 and is one of the prominent and influential citizens of North Buena Vista, where he has served with characteristic efficiency as mayor and as justice of the peace and where he held for two terms the office of village assessor. He is a stalwart in the ranks of the Re- publican party and has been an effective advocate of its principles and policies, the while his loyalty to the party is intensified by the cause which it virtually represented during the climacteric period of the Civil War, in which he served as a valiant soldier of the Union. Many years later his undiminished loyalty and patriotism were shown by his effective service as a soldier in the Spanish- American war. Mr. Haid was born in New York, on the 3d of August, 1845, and his education included a course in the great University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After the close of the war he maintained his residence in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, for a term of years, and he has been a resident of Clayton county since June 3, 1903. He is a communicant of the Catholic church and one of the most popular men of the southeast part of Clayton county.
Ernest Haltmeyer is of the younger generation of a family whose name first became identified with Clayton county in the early pioneer days, and in his native county he has achieved indi- vidual success and prestige as an argiculturist and progressive citi- zen, with character and accomplishments that have given him im- pregnable vantage-ground in popular confidence and esteem. He and his family reside in the village of Farmersburg, and their attractive home is known for its generous hospitality. Mr. Halt-
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meyer was born on a farm near the city of McGregor, this county, and the date of his nativity was June 27, 1880. He is the second in order of birth of the three children of John and Barbara (Eide- miller) Haltmeyer, the former of whom was born in Austria and the latter in the state of Pennsylvania. Of the three children the eldest is Lydia, who is the wife of William F. Linderman, of this county, and the youngest is Emma, who is the wife of Henry Brall- meier, of McGregor. John Haltmeyer first made his appearance in Clayton county, Iowa, in 1855, when this section was little more than an untrammeled wilderness, and later he went to Minne- sota, where he maintained his residence for a term of years. In 1874 he became the owner of a farm near McGregor, this county, and here he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1897. He was a substantial and influential citizen of his commu- nity and served for some time in the office of road supervisor. His first wife, whose maiden name was Susana Volgenant, was comparatively a young woman at the time of her death, and is survived by four children-Emily, who resides at McGregor and who is the widow of George Leibrand; Herman, who maintains his home at South McGregor; John, who is a resident of Man- chester, Delaware county, this State; and Flora, who is the wife of John Dehn, of Clayton. The second wife of John Haltmeyer survives him and now maintains her home at McGregor. Ernest Haltmeyer, the immediate subject of this review, acquired his early education in the public schools of Clayton county, and his inde- pendent career as a youth was marked not only by his work as a farm employe but also by effective activity as a stone mason and plasterer, to which lines of enterprise he still gives his attention in a successful way. He is a well-fortified supporter of the prin- ciples of the Democratic party and is now serving as a member of the Farmersburg board of education. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and in 1916 is serving as venerable council in his camp of the Woodmen of the World. On the 27th of Feb- ruary, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Haltmeyer to Miss Christina Drallmeier, who likewise was born and reared in Clayton county and who is a daughter of William and Mary (Man- delkow) Drallmeier, who were born in Germany and who became residents of Clayton county in the pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Haltmeyer became the parents of four children, of whom the third, Mabel, died in childhood. Edna, Irving and Irene are at the parental home.
Arthur Hamann .- One of the modern and thoroughly equipped business establishments of the thriving little city of Guttenberg is that of the firm of Hamann & Staack, dealers in automobiles and owners of a substantial garage and automobile accessories busi- ness. The firm has the local agency for the standard Buick, Olds- mobile and Cadillac automobiles, and in the large garage and repair shop, a building fifty by one hundred feet in dimensions, the best of accommodations and facilities are provided for the carry- ing on of the prosperous business which had its inception in the autumn of 1912. He whose name initiates this paragraph is the
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senior member of this popular firm of progressive young business men, and for this reason, as well as on account of his being a native son of Clayton county and a representative of a sterling pioneer family, he is specially eligible for recognition in this publication. Mr. Hamann was born on the old homestead farm of his parents, in Farmersburg township, four and one-half miles north of Garno- villo, and the date of his nativity was September 27, 1888. He is a son of Herman and Elizabeth (Koss) Hamann, the former of whom was born near Clayton Center, this county, and the latter in Garnavillo township, the respective families, of staunch Ger- man lineage, having been founded in this county in the early pioneer days. Herman Hamann was reared and educated in Clay- ton county and has long been a successful and influential exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry, both he and his wife still maintaining their residence on their fine old homestead farm in Farmersburg township, and both being active communicants of the German Lutheran church, the political allegiance of Mr. Ha- mann being given to the Democratic party. Of the children, the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, and the eldest is Glendor, who is a progressive farmer of Farmersburg township; Laura is the wife of Albert Schlake, of Garnavillo town- ship; and Herman, Jr., remains at the parental home and is asso- ciated with his father in the management of the farm. Arthur Hamann continued his studies in the public schools until he had availed himself of the advantages of the high school at Garnavillo, and thereafter he took a course in mechanical engineering as a student in the great University of Wisconsin, at Madison. The technical knowledge thus gained has splendidly equipped him for the business of which he is now a successful representative, and after leaving the university he was for some time employed in an automobile garage in the city of Omaha, Nebraska, where he also fortified himself still further by attending an automobile school. After his return to Clayton county he assisted in the work of his father's farm for a year, and then, in 1912, became associated with Arthur H. Staack in founding their present repre- sentative business enterprise, the original establishment of the firm of Hamann & Staack having been a building twenty-five by fifty feet in dimensions, and the two principals having personally handled all the repair work until the business so increased in scope and importance as to justify the employment of skilled assistants, the establishment of the firm now giving employment to six com- petent assistants. Mr. Hamann is a Democrat in politics, is affil- iated with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran church. Of his business associate, Mr. Staack, individual mention is made on other pages of this work. On the 15th of May, 1912, Mr. Hamann wedded Miss Alma Schlake, who was born and reared in this county and who is a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Wilker) Schlake, of Garnavillo township. Mr. and Mrs. Hamann have two children- Dolores, who was born January 31, 1913, and Alo, who was born December 10, 1915.
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solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hamann to Miss Elizabeth Koss, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wilke) Koss, who was born in Garnavillo township, this county, where her parents established their home soon after their emigration from Germany to the United States, in the '50s, and where they passed the remainder of their lives, their five children still surviving them. Mr. and Mrs. Hamann have four children, who in their generation are well upholding the honors of the family name: Glender F. is a prosperous farmer of Farmersburg township; Arthur O. is engaged in the garage and automobile business at Guttenberg, this county; Laura M. is the wife of Albert Schalke of this county; and Herman A., who re- mains at the parental home, is a graduate of the high school at Garnavillo.
Otto F. W. Hamann was born in Farmersburg township, this county, on the 4th of June, 1867, and is a son of August and Minnie (Rumpf) Hamann, honored pioneers of whom adequate mention is made in the sketch of their older son, Herman C. A. Hamann, on other pages of this work, so that a repetition of the data is not demanded in the present article. He whose name introduces this paragraph was reared to the invigorating and benignant discipline of the home farm, profited fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools of the locality and period. Soon after attaining to his legal majority he married and initiated his independent career as a farmer. He showed his ambition and self-confidence by pur- chasing the fine homestead place of two hundred and seventy acres, upon which he now resides and upon which he has made the best of modern improvements. The farm, given over to well-ordered operations in diversified agriculture and the raising of good grades of livestock, is situated in Section 25, Farmersburg township, and in addition to this property Mr. Hamann also owns another tract of eighty acres in Clayton township. He is a director of the Gar- navillo Livestock Commission Co., is a Democrat in his political pro- clivities and has served continuously since 1904 as secretary of the school board of his district. Both he and his wife are members and liberal supporters of the Lutheran church. In the year 1890 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hamann to Miss Anna Neu- bauer, who was born and reared in Germany and who was seven- teen years of age at the time of the family immigration to America, in 1883, when her parents, William and Anna (Ortman) Neubauer, established their home on a farm in Clayton county, where they passed the remainder of their lives, their two children surviving them. Mr. and Mrs. Hamann have six children: Amelia is now the wife of William Kugel; Harvey, who took a course in the Wis- consin State Agricultural College, is associated with his father in the management of the home farm; Lucy, who remains at the parental home, was graduated in the college at Waverly, this state; Adele was graduated in the high school at Garnavillo and is now a popular and successful teacher in the schools of her native county; and Anna and Irwin are the younger members of the happy home circle.
Edward B. Hanson, M. D., is a popular and progressive young man who has by his ability and service gained secure prestige as
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one of the presentative physicians and surgeons of his native county, and he is engaged in successful general practice, with residence and professional headquarters in the village of Edgewood. The Doctor was born at Strawberry Point, this county, on the 9th of April, 1880, and is a son of Bernard and Julia (Scully) Hanson, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Ireland. Ber- nard Hanson became a resident of Clayton county in the early pioneer period of its history, as he here established his home about 1841. He became one of the pioneer farmers of Cox Creek town- ship and later engaged in the general merchandise business at Strawberry Point, where he continued in this line of enterprise for many years, and where he continued his residence, as a repre- sentative citizen, until the time of his death, which occurred Feb- ruary 19, 1910, his devoted wife having passed to the life eternal in February, 1899, and both having been zealous communicants of the Catholic church. They became the parents of seven children, of whom the first two, James and Frederick, are deceased; Mar- garet now resides in the city of Dubuque, as does also Thomas; Dr. Edward B., of this review, was the next in order of birth; May resides in the city of Portland, Oregon; and Lulu is deceased. In the public schools of Strawberry Point Dr. Hanson continued his studies until he had completed a course in the high school, and his higher academic education was obtained in the University of Iowa. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the celebrated Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in the city of Chicago, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He served as interne and house physician of the hospital of the in- stitution, and in the latter position he continued until May, 1904, the experience having added materially to his fortification for the exacting and responsible duties of private practice, as the clinical cases in the hospital were such as to give him broad and varied knowledge of a practical order. Upon leaving Chicago the Doctor returned to his native county and established his residence at Edge- wood, where he has since been engaged in successful general prac- tice and where he has proved an able and loyal exponent of the benignant homoeopathic school of practice. He is an ambitious student of his profession and keeps in close touch with the ad- vances made in medical and surgical science, the while he is ac- tively affiliated with the American Institute of Homoeopathy. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church. On the 25th of November, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Hanson to Miss Lottie Smith, of Strawberry Point, and they have a win- some little daughter, Helen Maurine, who was born June 29, 1912.
Joseph Harbaugh is a sterling citizen who is living in gracious retirement in the village of Garber and whose present status of peace and prosperity stands in evidence of the material success that is to be gained in connection with the great industry of agri- culture, of which he was long and active and representative expo- nent in Clayton county. He came to this county with his parents in
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the year that marked his attaining to his legal majority, and as his honored father died a few months later he assumed heavy responsibilities, as he was the eldest of the children and became the virtual head of the family. He has now attained to the vener- able age of eighty-two years (1916), and in his well preserved mental and physical powers he exemplifies the admirable results of right thinking and right living. He is one of the honored pioneer citizens of Clayton county, a man of steadfast rectitude and one who has played well his part in connection with the duties and responsibilities of life, and none is more worthy of recognition in this history. Mr. Harbaugh was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of July, 1834, and is a son of Thomas and Mary (Blackburn) Harbaugh, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State, where the father was born in the year 1812 and the mother in 1810, she having been a daughter of Joseph Blackburn, who passed his entire life in Pennsylvania, and who was of English descent, the family name of his wife having been Weingarner. John Harbaugh, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, likewise passed his entire life in Pennsylvania, a representative of an English family that was founded in America in the colonial days, the family name of his wife having been Hammond. Thomas Harbaugh, a carpenter by trade, came with his family to Iowa in 1855 and became a pioneer settler of Clay- ton county, where he established his home in Pine Hollow, Volga township. There he died in the autumn of the same year, leaving a widow and seven children. Of the children the subject of this sketch was the eldest, as previously noted; Elizabeth died in child- hood; Josiah is living retired in Volga township; Mary, who be- came the wife of John Grace, is now deceased; Margaret is the widow of John Jones; Sarah is the widow of William, Tompkins; John is a substantial farmer of this county; and Rachel is the widow of Quint Hart. Joseph Harbaugh was twenty-one years old at the time of the family removal from the old Keystone State to Clayton county, Iowa, and with the death of his father he assumed the responsibilities of making provision for his widowed mother and the younger children, besides having also to look earnestly to the interests of the young wife whom he had brought with him from Pennsylvania. He purchased forty acres of wild land, in Section 8, Volga township, and on the same he erected an unpretentious house as a domicile for the family. In 1857 he returned to Pennsylvania, and from that state he went to Mans- field, Ohio, where he remained three and one-half years. The following year he passed at St. Johns, the judicial center of Clin- ton county, Michigan, and he then returned to Clayton county, where he continued his successful activities as a farmer during the ensuing half century, his homestead farm, of one hundred and twenty acres, having been well improved, and forty acres of the same being still in his possession, the other eighty acres having been sold by him several years ago. He retired from the farm in 1914 and has since resided in his pleasant and comfortable home in the village of Garber. His loved mother attained to ven-
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erable age and passed to the life eternal in June, 1891. Mr. Har- baugh has always been a supporter of the principles for which the Democratic party has stood sponsor in a basic way, and he is a member of the Dunkard church, as was also his wife. In Bed- ford county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harbaugh to Miss Mahala Heck, daughter of Daniel Heck, and she passed to the life eternal more than thirty years ago. They became the parents of five sons and five daughters: Ellen is the wife of Dill MacDole; Daniel is a farmer in Volga township; Adeline is the wife of Frank Stone; William Sanford is a farmer in South Dakota; Mary Catherine is the wife of Henry Hansel; Jefferson is a prosperous farmer of Volga township; Charles is a land agent in the state of Washington; Joseph J. is a substantial farmer near Colesburg, Delaware county, Iowa; Miss Nettie lives with her sister, Mrs. Hansel; and Malinda is the wife of Edward Jennings. On the 12th of December, 1891, at Osterdock, this county, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harbaugh to Mrs. Lizzie (Wingard) Shea, a daughter of the late Jacob Wingard, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Harbaugh presides with gracious- ness over the pleasant and hospitable home at Garber and she and her husband have an adopted daughter, whose maiden name was Lena Weaver and who is now the wife of Villard Harbaugh, their home being in South Dakota.
John Hartwick has been a resident of Clayton county since he was a lad of six years, and within the intervening period of nearly sixty years he has proved himself a resourceful exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry in this favored section of the Hawkeye State, where he has precedence as the owner of one of the most extensive and valuable landed estates in Clayton county, the same comprising nearly one thousand acres, and his splendidly improved homestead being eligibly situated in Giard township, with rural mail service on Route No. 1 from the village of McGregor. Mr. Hartwick is a representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of this county, and of that staunch German element of citizenship that has played so large and benignant a part in connection with the social and material development and upbuilding of the county. He was born in the Grand Duchy of Hessen, Germany, on the 29th of September, 1840, and is a son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Schneider) Hartwick, who left the Fatherland in 1847 and immigrated to America. Soon after their arrival in the land of their adoption they came to Iowa and numbered themselves among the early settlers of Clayton county. After a comparatively brief period of residence in the little village of McGregor, Conrad Hartwick purchased a tract of wild land in Giard township and instituted the reclamation of the same. Industry and good management were not denied a gener- ous measure of prosperity, and he became one of the extensive landholders and substantial farmers, as well as an honored and influential citizen, of the county, where he continued his residence until the time of his death, which occurred May 25, 1890, the loved wife of his youth having been summoned to eternal rest on
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the 25th of May, 1873, and the subject of this review having been their only child. Conrad Hartwick entered most fully into the spirit of American institutions and became a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party. He was a man whose course was guided and governed by invincible integrity, and both he and his wife were zealous and consistent members of the German Methodist Episcopal church. John Hartwick was reared under the invigorating influences of the home farm, and his memory links the pioneer epoch in the history of Clayton county with the twentieth century of opulent prosperity. He gained his early education in the pioneer schools of Giard township, and, as the only child, he naturally remained at the parental home, and with the passing years began to relieve his father more and more of the exacting duties and responsibilities attending the various operations of the large farm, into full possession of which he came in 1890, upon the death of his honored father. The homestead comprised seven hundred acres and he has since added to his landed estate until he now has a fine domain of nearly one thou- sand acres, all in Giard township. He is one of the extensive and influential representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Clayton county and through his well ordered enterprise has become known as one of the substantial capitalists of the county. He is one of the leading stockholders in the State Bank of McGregor and is serving as a member of its directorate. Now venerable in years, he has given over the active management of his farm estate to his only surviving son and is living virtually retired, strong of mind and physical powers and secure in the confidence and good will of the community in which he has lived since his boyhood. Mr. Hartwick has never been perturbed by ambition for public office, though he has been loyal and liberal as a citizen and given his co-operation in the furtherance of those movements that have tended to conserve the general welfare of the community, the while he has been found aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, both he and his wife being zealous members of the German Methodist Episcopal church at Giard, in which he formerly served as a steward. On the 2d of March, 1865, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hartwick to Miss Christina Arnold, of Farmersburg township, this county, and she has proved a devoted companion and helpmeet during the long intervening years, while her gracious personality has gained and retained to her the high regard of all who have come within the compass of her influence. She is the second in order of birth in a family of three children, of whom the first was Frederick, whose death occurred when he was about sixty-two years old; Mary, the youngest of the number, is the wife of Edward Griffin, and they maintain their home in Hancock county, this state. Mrs. Hart- wick was born in Baden, Germany, on the 20th of October, 1847, and was about four years of age when, in 1851, her parents, Fred- rick and Christinia (Sexaur) Arnold, immigrated to America and settled in Farmersburg township, Clayton county, where she was reared and educated, her father having been one of the substantial
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