E. R. AMDOR

AMDOR

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 14:45:00

E. R. AMDOR, who resides on section 25, Lincoln township, Adams county, Iowa, was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, January 1, 1849. His parents were Bennett N. and Sophronia (Manly) Amdor, the former a native of Saxony, Germany, and the latter of Ohio. Michael Amdor, father of Bennett, left Germany to prevent his oldest child and only son, then about twenty-one years of age, from entering the army. Bennett's two sisters accompanied them to America, and from the eastern coast they made the journey West to Indiana by wagon. One of the sisters, Earnestine, married John Houck and after his death was married to Lotte Boham. The other, Christiana, wedded Lawrence Steinmetz. Both sisters are yet living. Bennett Amdor died in Dearborn county, Indiana, at the age of sixty-four years. He was a farmer all his life and an energetic and progressive man. His wife is still living at the old homestead in Dearborn county, and at this writing is seventy-one years.

The subject of our sketch was the fifth born in a family of nine children. He was reared of a farm, at the age of twenty-one began operations for himself, and has ever since followed the independent life of a farmer. In February, 1871, he came to Iowa. One year he rented land and the next year came to his present location, then wild and altogether unimproved. He now owns 210 acres of highly cultivated and well improved land, all under fence and adapted to corn, oats and grass. He has an artificial grove, a good bearing orchard, and raises some small fruit. His two story residence is nicely located and before it spreads a landscape of beautiful and fertile country. He is located four miles north of Carbon and on the section road. He raises a good grade of cattle, hogs and horses, his stock consuming about all the corn, hay, etc., produced on his place.

April 13, 1873, Mr. Amdor married Miss Sarah Frances, daughter of David and Mary J. Cochran, of Adams county. Mrs. Amdor is a lady of culture and refinement, possessing marked intelligence and a natural grace of manner. Her parents came from Peoria county, Illinois, in 1870. Her father was born in Scotland and her mother in France. They had a family of fifteen children, of whom nine are still living. Eleven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Amdor, viz.: Sophronia, wife of James H. Billingsley; Christina, Ella, Esther, Dayton, Lillie, Everett, Bertha, and the following deceased: Augustus D., at the age of six months, and Eugene and Eunice (twins), at the age of one month and six days.

Politically Mr. Amdor is a Democrat.