SPRINGER, Daniel A. - 1914

SPRINGER, SLAUGAUGH, KINZEL, PHEFIER

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

DANIEL A. SPRINGER.

Daniel A. Springer, who has resided in Cherokee county for the past eighteen: years, is a prosperous representative of business interests in Cleghorn, conducting a hardware store in partnership with Joseph J. Kinzel. His birth occurred in McLean county, Illinois, on the i9th of June, 1877, his parents being Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Slaubaugh) Springer, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Maryland. Andrew J. Springer took up his abode in Illinois in the 503 and carried on general agricultural pursuits in that state until 1895 except for the period which he spent in California as a gold seeker. Eighteen years agO he came to Cherokee county, Iowa, and for two years operated a farm which he had purchased in Sheridan township. He still resides thereon but is not actively engaged in the work of the fields, spending the evening of life in honorable retirement.

Daniel A. Springer, who acquired his education in the schools of his native state, was a young man of eighteen years when he came to this county with his parents. In 1898, on attaining his majority, he left the home farm and took up. his abode on a tract of rented land in Sheridan township, cultivating the same successfully until the spring of 1913. On the first day of April he embarked in the hardware business at Cleghorn in association with his brotherinlaw, Joseph J. Kinzel, the two young men purchasing the stock and building of David Gowan. They have already won an enviable reputation as reliable and uptodate merchants and are accorded a liberal patronage. Mr. Springer is also a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator Company of Cleghorn and the Cleghorn Independent Telephone Company.

In February, 1899, Mr. Springer was joined in wedlock to Miss Lena Kinzel, a daughter of Andrew J. and Dora (Pheifer) Kinzel, of whom more extended mention is made on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of Joseph J. Kinzel, brother of Mrs. Springer. Our subject and his wife have two children, Edwin A. and Floyd A., who are thirteen and twelve years of age respectively. Mr. Springer is a progressive in politics, while his religious faith is that of the Christian church. His business interests have been carefully conducted, his duties of citizenship capably performed and at all times he has been true to the obligations and responsibilities that have devolved upon him in every relation of life, making him one of the valued and respected residents of the community.