DAHM, Chris

DAHM

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 10/3/2001 at 18:32:20

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

Chris Dahm, manager for J. H. C. Peterson & Sons, dry goods house, 218 Fifth avenue; is a native of Schleswig, Germany; was born Feb. 22, 1849; he came to America in March, 1874; he engaged in the mercantile business in Moline, Ill., having the management of the business there three years; he came to Clinton in April, 1879; while living in Moline, he was elected President of the Scandinavian Co-operative Home Association, an organization chartered by the State for the purpose of buying land farther west, to establish a colony. He is connected with the Swedish Olive Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.; upon leaving Moline, he was presented by the Lodge with a handsome ebony, gold-headed cane, inscribed-" Presented to C. Dahm by the members of Swedish Olive Lodge, No. 583, I. 0. 0. F."