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1900; James Howard. born May 2, 1904: Harold Eugene. born January 5, IQI0. This family resides in Huron, South Dakota.
Archie Preston is the second son, born December 5. 1877, and was married on February 5, 1902, to Grace Traver, who was born October 6, 1882. They have one child. Kenneth Preston, born December 16, 1912. Archie Preston resides in Richland township.
Leroy James, of Huron. South Dakota, third son of James A., was born January 30, 1880, and was married December 2, 1903, to Della Gray, who was born September 20, 1879. They have three children: Alice. born August 13, 1905, died August 15, 1905 : Ethel Helen, born August 28, 1906, and died April 14, 1911 ; James Lewis, born June 17, 1908.
The fourth child of this marriage is Mrs. Ella Florence Frevert, born August 17, 1881, and was married December 27, 1905. to Edward Frevert, who was born April 13, 1882, and is the father of the following children : Raymond Frederick, born March 8, 1907; Alice Catherine, born June 8, 1908: Kathryn Florence, born July 16, 1912.
The fifth child of this marriage is Ethel May, born December 30, 1883. who is now a resident of South Dakota.
Clifford Earl, the sixth in order of birth, was born July 15, 1885, and was married February 8, 1911, to Nina Brown, who was born February 17, 1884. They have one child, Nina Mae, born January 23, 1912.
Charles Lewis, seventh by birth, was born August 11, 1887.
John Ray, the eighth, was born August 1, 1889, and was married December 31. 1912, to Zylpha Peck, and is the father of one child, Robert Kieth, born February 15. 1914.
Leslie Verl is the youngest of the family, born September 11, 1893.
Mr. Cranston's second marriage occurred December 14, 1911, to Carrie E. Cranston, of Miller, South Dakota, who was born December 7, 1873.
He of whom this review is written is a pronounced Progressive in his political affiliations and is a political worker of considerable strength and influence in the county. He has served as township trustee and township clerk. He is a ruling elder of the Odebolt Presbyterian church, is trustee of the Sac County Farmers' Institute, and is a director and stockholder of the First National Bank of Odebolt.
Mr. Cranston is a citizen of wide sympathies and recognized ability. whose circle of friends is large and loyal. He is broad-minded, intelligent and keeps fully abreast of the developments of the times ; his activity in civic, agricultural and church affairs betokens him as a leading member of his community and one who invokes an instinctive liking on the part of those
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whom he meets. This chronicle and genealogical record is intended as a memoir for his children and grandchildren in perpetuity, and is a distinct recognition of his inherent right as one of the pioneer settlers of the county to have a place in the annals of his county which he has assisted in developing and bringing to the forefront during his long and useful residence here.
CHARLES JENSEN.
Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages and as a usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free out-door life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterizes true manhood and no truer blessing can befall a boy than to be reared in close touch with nature in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has always been the fruitful soil from which have sprung the moral bone and sinew of the country, and the majority of our nation's great warriors, renowned statesmen and distin- guished men of letters were born on the farm and were indebted largely to its early influence for the distinction which they have attained.
Charles Jensen, one of the representative farmers of Boyer Valley town- ship, Sac county, Iowa, was born February 22, 1875, in Clinton county, Iowa. He is the son of O. V. and Caroline Jensen. The ancestral history of the Jensen family is given in the history of Oliver Jensen, which is found else- where .in this volume.
Charles Jensen was educated in the district schools of Clinton county and Sac county. He was six years of age when his parents moved from Clinton to Sac county and has resided since the spring of 1881 in Boyer Valley township. At the age of twenty-one he moved upon his present farm and has improved it to a great extent, since taking possession. He now has two sets of excellent buildings and has the farm equipped with all of the modern appliances and accessories necessary for the successful farmer. Though he raises all the grains comnion to this locality, he makes a specialty of the breeding of black Aberdeen Angus cattle. For the past twenty years he has made a specialty of this breed of cattle and has been very successful in his efforts. He now has a herd of twelve cows and produces annually about twelve lead for the market. There is no question but what there is a big demand for well-bred stock and Mr. Jensen has felt that it was possible in
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more ways than one to keep only good cattle, for this reason he has taken a great deal of pride in keeping his breed up to a good standard.
Mr. Jensen was married March 22, 1901, to Elizabeth Ann Drury, the daughter of J. Reese Drury and wife, of this township. The genealogy of the Drury family and their interesting history is set forth elsewhere in this volume in the sketch of J. R. Drury. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have one son living, Milton Reese, who was born April 25, 1910; they had one daughter, Eveline Adele, who was born on March 19, 1907, and died in early infancy.
Mr. Jensen cast his first vote for William Mckinley in 1896, and has been casting his ballot regularly for the Republican party since that time. He and his wife are attendants of the Presbyterian church and render it such assistance as is within their power. Mr. Jensen takes an active interest in the affairs of his community and is justly regarded as one of the representative men of his township, who are always on the alert to promote the general welfare.
A. B. GULLIFORD.
One of the successful farmers of Cook township, Sac county, Iowa, who has made his impress upon the community in which he has lived for many years is A. B. Gulliford, the proprietor of one hundred and sixty acres of excellent farming land in this township. His career has been marked by hard work and strict attention to business, which has resulted in his attaining to a fair degree of success and the securing of a goodly share of this world's goods.
Mr. Gulliford was born on September 22, 1862, in Grant county, Wis- consin, the son of John and Mary ( Francisco) Gulliford. John and Mary (Francisco) Gulliford were both natives of New York and were reared and married in Wisconsin before coming to Iowa. They came to Iowa in 1874. locating three miles south of Odebolt, in Wheeler township, this county, where they entered prairie land. In 1880 they moved to Cook township, this county, where they lived until 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Gulliford were the parents of five children : Mrs. Isaac N. Mead: Mrs. Henry Mclaughlin ; Mrs. Charles Higgins, deceased: Mrs. Elsie McCline, deceased, and A. B., whose history is here presented. John Gulliford was an invalid for many years on account of injuries received during his service in the Civil War. He was in the Twenty-second Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served for three years. He nearly lost his eyesight while in the service and
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suffered from eye trouble during the remainder of his life. He died in Schaller. Iowa, in 1906.
A. B. Gulliford was educated in the district schools of his township, and began farming for himself in 1886 on the home farm. Later he lived for one year in Schaller, Iowa, but returned at the expiration of that time to the farm and has continued to reside there since. In 1903 Mr. Gulliford purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Cook town- ship, and in 1909 he erected a large concrete home, which is modern in every respect, contains twelve rooms and is fitted with all the modern conveiences.
Mr. Gulliford was married in 1886 to Hattie Weaver, and to this union there have been born three children, James, Elda and Mary. Politically, Mr. Gulliford is a stanch Democrat and is heartily in sympathy with the prin- ciples set forth by President Wilson. He has won the respect of a large circle of friends and acquaintances because of his quiet and unostentatious life since living in this county. He is a citizen who can always be depended upon to be on the right side of such questions as affect the welfare of his com- munity.
EDWARD H. HANSON.
History tells us that the Norsemen were the first white men to see America and that Lief, the Lucky, visited the shores of Greenland and Labrador in about the year 1000. From the earliest part of the Christian era, the people of Norway and Sweden have been among the most venture- some of the many different nations of Europe and the energy which charac- terizes these people has made them one of the most prosperous nations of Europe. A few of the descendants of these old sea kings of Norway and Sweden have settled in Sac county, Iowa, and among these is Edward H. Hanson, a farmer of Richland township.
Edward H. Hanson was born March 31, 1879, at Oyster Bay, New York. He is the son of Nels and Anna (Nelson) Hanson, who were both born in Sweden. Nels Hanson was born in May, 1839, and died in May, 1902, while his wife was born in April, 1847, and died in November, 1913. They were married in the land of their birth and came to America in 1868, and for a period of two years lived in New York, then located in Oyster Bay, where the father, Nels Hanson, was a caretaker for a summer estate. Here the family lived until the spring of 1883, when, wishing to better their condition, they came direct to Odebolt. Sac county, Iowa. After a year's
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residence in Odebolt, the family moved to a farm of a brother of Nels, who had previously come to this county. Two years later Mr. Hanson moved to his farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Richland township. In 1891 he purchased three hundred and twenty acres. In 1902 he moved to Odebolt, where he died in May of that year. Mr. and Mrs. Nels Hanson were the parents of nine children, of whom Edward H. is the fifth.
Edward H. Hanson was educated in the district schools of his home township and has lived the greater part of his life in Sac county. Twenty years of his life have been spent on his present farm near Odebolt. He was married March 3, 1909, to Ella Down, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Down, of Sae county. To this marriage have been born two children, both of whom are deceased.
Politically, Mr. Hanson is affiliated with the Republican party and identifies himself with the Progressive wing of the party. He and his wife are both stanch members of the Methodist Episcopal church and interest themselves in the various works of that denomination. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He has won the respect and esteem of all who know him, because of his friendly manner, his business ability and his upright living.
HENRY A. KLUCKHOHN.
Statistics show that among the very finest foreign-born members of our cosinopolitan population are many who are natives of the great German empire. Their influence upon our national life has been marked, disseminating as they have their national virtues of industry, fragality and honesty. These characteristics have been handed down from father to son so that our native- born Americans of German descent possess these same admirable traits, coupled with our world-famous occidental ability and push, and fortunate is the man whose character possesses these marked traits. All this can truth- fully be said of the man whose name initiates this paragraph, to a short sketch of whose life the attention of the reader is now directed.
Henry A. Kluckhohn, who has retired from the active duties of life and is now living quietly at his beautiful home in Odebolt, Sac county, Iowa, was born on February 10, 1855, in Grant county, Wisconsin, the son of August and Wilhelmina Saak, both of whom were natives of Germany. August, who came to America in 1848, when twenty-one years of age, was born on February 22, 1827, in Lieden-Hausen, Oen-Hausen, Detmold. Upon
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attaining his majority, he decided to seek his fortune in the New World and left his home in Germany on March 19, 1848, arriving in New York on May Sth of the same year. His marriage occurred on July 27, 1853, while living in Chicago, Illinois, and the same year he and his bride settled in Grant county, Wisconsin, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was the father of thirteen children, the oldest of whom was Henry A., the immediate subject of this sketch. The others are: Sophia (Mrs. Miner), who resides in Odebolt ; Minnie and Lydia, deceased ; Caroline ( Mrs. Hoffman), who lives at Eagle Grove, Iowa; August, a farmer of the same place; Henrietta (Mrs. Christ ), of Lake City, lowa: Emma, who lives in Grant county, Wisconsin ; Hilda, living in Montana. as is also Arthur; Edward, of Rockford, Iowa; Albert, of Blackfoot, Idaho, and Clarence. of Grant county, Wisconsin.
Henry A. Kluckhohn was reared on the parental homestead in Wiscon- sin and was there married, on February 25, 1879, to Caroline Christina Boerner, of the same county, born February 26, 1857, in Chicago, daughter of John A. and Matilda Danım Boerner, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America, finally settling in Grant county, Wisconsin. A few years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kluckhohn came westward and located in Ida county, this state, where they lived for thirteen years. Upon coming here, Mr. Kluck- hohn purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, and in the thirteen years he resided in Ida county he increased his holdings to four hundred and eighty · acres in that county, which he still owns. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Silver Creek township, being located four miles west of Cook Center, but he did his trading at Odebolt. In 1892 he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Richland township, this county, on which the family re- sided until February of 1909, when he moved into the home which he had erected in Odebolt. This is one of the most beautiful, spacious and complete homes in the city and is located on Park avenue, one of the show streets of the town. Mr. Kluckhohn has succeeded well in his chosen vocation, and his activities have stamped him as a man of unusual business ability, unswerving honor and integrity.
In politics, Mr. Kluckhohn has for years been a firm adherent of the policies of the Republican party, but lately he has evinced a tendency to be independent in such matters, having an inclination to support the man as an individual rather than the party's representative. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the ancient order of Freemasonry. Mr. and Mrs. Kluckhohn are the parents of three children, namely : Ellis L., a farmer of Richland township. He has
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one son, Edwin, who has been reared by the grandparents, owing to the fact that Ellis L. is a widower. Ottmar is married and lives on the old Ida county homestead. Emil, the youngest son, is located at Seattle, Washington.
Mr. Kluckholin is a man in every sense worthy of the name, and through- out the years of his residence in this locality his influence has ever been exerted for the best good of the various phases of community life.
JAMES A. DRURY.
The student interested in Sac county, Iowa, does not have to carry his investigation far into its annals before learning that James A. Drury has long been an active and leading representative of its agricultural interests and that his labors have proven a potent force in making this a rich farming region. Through several decades the subject has carried on farming, gradually im- proving his valuable place, and while he has prospered in this, he has also found ample opportunity to assist in the material development of the county, and his co-operation has been of value for the general good.
James A. Drury, of Boyer Valley township, was born July 16, 1874, in Marshall county, Iowa. He was the son of Isaiah and Margaret Jane (Leach) Drury, who were both natives of Indiana. His parents moved to Marshall county, Iowa, from Indiana in 1862 and in 1884 they moved to Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Drury were the parents of nine children: Samuel, of Marshall county, Iowa; Mrs. Mahala Daugherty, of Marshall county; J. Reese, whose history is portrayed elsewhere in this volume; Albert, of Mar- shall county, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Ellen Cline, of Louisiana: Lafayette, of Oregon; William, of Nebraska; Clara, of Louisiana, and James A., with whom this narrative deals.
James A. Drury received his first education in Marshall county, Iowa. and when eleven years of age accompanied his father to Louisiana, where he attended school until he was seventeen years of age. His mother had died before he went to Louisiana and his father died after he had been in Louisiana six years. When he was seventeen years of age he came to Sac county and lived for a year with his brother, then returned to Louisiana and remained a year, but permanently located in Sac county in 1893. In 1898 he was mar- ried and purchased his first farm in Delaware township, this county, but a year later sold it and returned to Boyer Valley township, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres for fifty dollars an acre. This land is now
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worth two hundred dollars an acre, and his corn in 1913 averaged fifty bushels to the acre. His farm has natural drainage and this makes the soil easier to cultivate. therefore less expensive to manage. The farmers in this county who are compelled to spend thousand of dollars in drainage can appreciate what it means to have a farm which is naturally drained.
Mr. Drury was married on September 21, 1898, to Grace Kelley, the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Kelley, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Cedar county in the late fifties. In 1868 the Kelley family settled in Dallas county, and in 1873 they permanently located in Douglas township, Sac county. Mr. Kelley died in 1909 and his wife in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Drury have one daughter, Gladys May, who was born on May 25, 1905.
In his political affiliations, Mr. Drury has allied himself with the new Progressive party. He keeps well informed on the current issues of the day and can intelligently discuss the political questions of the hour. His family are regular attendants of the Presbyterian church and contribute liberally to its support. Fraternally, he is a member of the Yeomen and is interested in all the social activities of that fraternal organization. Mr. Drury started out in life with practically nothing, and by his own grit and determination has reached a position where he has a fine farm and a comfortable living. He takes an active part in the affairs of the community and is rightly regarded as a representative man of his locality.
BARNABAS C. STANZEL.
One of the younger farmers of Sac county, who is now operating a farm of his own is Barnabas Stanzel, of Clinton township, Sac county, Iowa. Early in life he decided that he wished to follow the vocation of a farmer, and with this end in view he began to interest himself in all of those details which in the aggregate make up the vocation of the successful farmer. He was born September 27, 1886. on the farm where he is now living and has lived on this place continuously since that time, with the exception of about one year, which he spent in the southern part of Iowa and one year in Lake View. He is a son of William A. and Lavina R. (Clark) Stanzel, who were pioneers of Clinton township.
Barnabas Stanzel was educated in the schools of Clinton township and the high school at Lake View. When not in school during his boyhood days, he was assisting his father on the home farm. and when twenty years of age
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began farming for himself on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres whichi he received from his father.
Mr. Stanzel was married February 10, 1909. in Ida Grove, Iowa, to Bertha Grace, the daughter of Thomas and Olive Grace, who are now resi- dents of Sac City. To Mr. and Mrs. Stanzel has been born one son, Gerald, on January 11, 1910.
Politically, Mr. Stanzel is a Republican, but has confined his political activities to the casting of his ballot for the candidates of his party. Mr. Stanzel is now in the prime of life and has a long and useful career open be- fore him. The record which he has made so far in his community indicates that in the years to come he will become a man of influence for good in his community. He is always reasonable and just in all of his business transactions and has never violated in the slightest degree the confidence which his fellow citizens have reposed in hitn.
FRANK CAWIEZEL.
The little republic of Switzerland furnishes very few emigrants to the United States, for the reason, probably, that the people of that country enjoy as democratic a form of government as do the people of this country. Switzerland has the oldest republic in Europe, and for several hundred years they have enjoyed the freest democratic government in the world. In the small mountain state of Switzerland the initiative, referendum and recall were born, which today are being so widely agitated throughout the United States. The people of Switzerland are among the most prosperous of any people in the world, and the few Swiss emigrants who have made their home in the United States have prospered wherever they have settled.
Frank Cawiezel, a prosperous farmer of Sac county, was born April 7, 1847. in Switzerland. His parents, Lucius and Mary Cawiezel. lived all their lives in Switzerland. Frank Cawiezel came from his native country to Iowa in 1868, and followed the trade of a carpenter, which he had learned in his native land, continuing in this business until the time of his marriage, which occurred in 1875. In 1869 he went to Nebraska and took up a home- stead there, but shortly afterwards went to St. Louis, and here followed his vocation as a carpenter for three years, at the end of which time he went to Shreveport, Louisiana, and worked for some time at that place, after which he returned to St. Louis. He then married and came to Sac county, Iowa,
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in 1875, where he rented a farm for the first two years on the site now occupied by the city of Early. then bought one hundred and sixty acres for fifteen hundred dollars, and he has added to this tract from time to time until he and his wife own together nine hundred and eight acres of fine farming land in this county and Buena Vista county, this state. He has prospered from the beginning of his farming experience, and his whole career in this county testifies of the man who wished to perform his full duty as a citizen of his adopted country. He has a fine modern home of seven rooms, which is situated on the bluff above Boyer river. He raises large crops of all the grains common to this locality and also markets a considerable amount of live stock each year.
Mr. Cawiezel was married in 1875 to Mary Durisch, of Clinton county, Iowa. and to this marriage have been born nine children: Stephen and Lucius, deceased; Mrs. Fannie Yander, of Carroll county, Iowa ; Mrs. Mary Toohey, of Buena Vista county. this state: Mrs. Katie McKenna, of Murray county, Minnesota ; Frances, Frank, Ida and Elinor, the four youngest chil- dren being still with their parents on the farm.
Politically, Mr. Cawiezel is an independent voter, having always be- lieved that the best interests of his community would be best served by voting for the best man. He and his family are all loyal and consistent members of the Catholic church at Schaller, and are interested in the various activities of that denomination. Mr. Cawiezel has a charming home and he and his family entertain their many friends with genuine hospitality.
AUGUST H. W. REUBER.
Among the prosperous business men of Odebolt. Sac county, Iowa, who have been prominently identified with the commercial life of the county, there is no one who stands higher in public esteem than August H. W. Reuber, of the firm of Reuber & Bruce, dealers in grains, seeds and popcorn. Mr. Reuber is one of the many representatives of the substantial German element of this county, and brings to bear in his business those sterling qualities which characterize the Germans wherever they are found. Seven years after landing in this country and at the early age of twenty-three years, he engaged in the popcorn business in Odebolt. He saw that this industry had great possibilities and, with keen foresight, has built up a trade which is second to none in this part of the state
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