Tietje, Charles

ZELL, KEDING

Posted By: BCGS
Date: 1/12/2010 at 09:06:00

A good farm of one hundred and fifteen acres on section 26, Sumner township, is owned by Charles Tietje and in its cultivation and further improvement his time is fully occupied with the result that it is today an attractive and valuable property. Mr. Tietje was born in Lake county, Illinois, October 31, 1883, and is a son of William and Louisa (Zell) Tietje, natives of Germany, who settled in Bremer county in 1884. The father is now living retired in Sumner. A more extended mention of his career is found elsewhere in this work.

Charles Tietje was reared upon the home farm in this county and acquired his education in the district and parochial schools, afterward remaining at home until he was twenty-seven years of age. His father then erected a set of buildings upon one hundred and fifteen acres of the homestead and installed his son as manager. This property Charles Tietje now owns and he has developed it along progressive and modern lines, meeting with that success which always follows earnest and persistent labor.

In 1910 Mr. Tietje married Miss Bertha Keding, and they have become the parents of a daughter, Norma. Mr. Tietje is a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church at Sumner and is a republican in his political beliefs. He is a young man of integrity, enterprise and ambition and is accounted one of the township's representative citizens.

History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914