Gottlob Heiserman

PFEIFFER, STIRAM, CHESMORE, KRESS, ALLEN, KAESSER

Posted By: Lisa G. for Becky Teubner
Date: 5/3/2004 at 05:06:32

1914 Buchanan Co., IA History Vol. 2 pgs. 522-523

Gottlob Heiserman is the owner of an excellent farm comprising two hundred acres on sections 2, 3 and 10, Cono township, which he has operated continuously and successfully during the past thirty years. His birth occurred in Germany in July, 1842, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. John Heiserman, who spent their entire lives in that country. The father, who followed farming throughout his active business career, passed away in 1860, while the mother was called to her final rest in 1844.

Gottlob Heiserman was reared and educated in the country of his nativity and there devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits as a renter until 1866, when as a young man of twenty-four years he emigrated to the United States. Locating in Pennsylvania, he was there employed as a farm hand for one year and in 1867 came to Iowa, continuing as a farm hand in Linn county for two years. On the expiration of that period he purchased and improved a forty-acre tract in that county and subsequently bought eighty acres which he cultivated for some time. After disposing of the property he purchased and improved a quarter section of land in Linn county and devoted his attention to its operation for a period of four years. He then sold the place and in 1885 came to Buchanan county, Iowa, purchasing a farm of two hundred and eighty acres on sections 2, 3 and 10, Cono township, which he improved. He has operated his farm continuously to the present time, but has sold eighty acres to his son. His residence is on section 10 and he carries on general farming in accordance with the most practical and modern methods, his gratifying success rewarding many years of earnest and persistent labor.

On the 13th of February, 1868, Mr. Heiserman was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Pfeiffer, a daughter of Christopher and Catherine (Stiram) Pfeiffer, both of whom were natives of Germany. They crossed the Atlantic to the United States in an early day and settled first in Pennsylvania, where the father followed farming for a short time. Subsequently he removed to Linn county, Iowa, and there purchased a farm of eighty acres which he operated for a number of years or throughout the remainder of his active business career. His last days were spent in honorable retirement at Marion, where he passed away July 30, 1905, at the age of eighty years. The demise of his wife occurred on the 1st of November, 1895, when she had attained the age of seventy-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Heiserman have ten children, as follows: Sarah, who is the wife of Enos Chesmore, an agriculturist of Cono township; Lewis, who is engaged in farming in Minnesota; Ida M., who gave her hand in marriage to George Kress, a farmer of Cono township; William, who follows agricultural pursuits in Minnesota; Charles, a farmer residing in Cono township, this county; Nellie, the wife of Jacob Kress, who is engaged in farming in Cono township; Frank, also an agriculturist of Cono township, this county; Harley, at home; Maggie, who is the wife of Harry Allen, a farmer of Buchanan county, this state; and Clista, who is the wife of William Kaesser, a farmer of this county.

In his political views Mr. Heiserman is a democrat. He has held the positions of road supervisor and school director here and has made an enviable record as a capable and trustworthy public official. His religious faith is that of the Evangelical church. In this country he found the opportunities which he sought and in their wise utilization has won a most gratifying degree of prosperity, while the ster [text missing]