CORRINGTON, Henry - 1914

CORRINGTON, COOK, SAWYER, FREI, HAUPTLE

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

HENRY CORRINGTON.

Henry Corrington, who owns one of the finest farms in Cherokee county, upon which he located in 1889, is a native of Iowa, born in Clayton county, January 11, 1860. He is a son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Cook) Corrington, natives of Ohio, where the father was engaged in farming. They afterward moved to Clayton county, this state and thence to Grundy county, where the father died November 12, 1881. The mother passed away in Rock township, Cherokee county, December 5, 1895. To their union were born ten children: C. M., of Decatur county, Iowa; Anna, deceased; John, of Quimby, Iowa; Henry of this review; Mary, the wife of William Sawyer of St. Charles, South Dakota; William of Mount Vernon, South Dakota; Jacob, deceased; Aldon of Hartley, Iowa; Charles of Bristol, South Dakota; and L. J., of Cherokee township.

Henry Corrington acquired his education in Hardin, Tama and Grundy counties and during his childhood and youth worked upon his fathers farm, continuing this until after the latters death. When he was twentythree years of age he rented a farm in Grundy county and continued to develop and improve this property for five years. About the year 1889 he moved to Cherokee county and purchased one hundred acres of the farm which he now owns. He has since increased this to three hundred and twenty acres and has carried forward the work of cultivation along practical and modern lines, making the farm one of the most productive and valuable in his locality.

On the 14th of March, 1883, Mr. Corrington married Miss Anna Frei, a daughter of John and Anna (Hauptle) Frei of Grundy county, Iowa. The parents were natives of Switzerland and came to the United States in 1864, locating in Chicago, Illinois, where they spent fourteen years. At the end of that time they moved to Grundy county, Iowa, and thence to Cherokee county, where both died, the father passing away January 5th and the mother July 6, 1899. The wife of the subject of this review was born in Switzerland, March 31, 1862, and acquired her education in the public schools of Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Corrington have nine children: William and Ella at home; Daisy, who married Lee Pennington of Pilot township, by whom she has a son, Harold; Fred Thomas; Elsie; Gertrude; Verna; Arthur; and Henry.

Mr. Corrington is connected fraternally with the Modern Woodmen of America and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He was township trustee for four years and has been school director, discharging the duties of both offices.in a capable and able way. He is a man of excellent business ability and well known throughout Pilot township, which numbers him among its most representative and progressive citizens.