KREIM, HENRY

KREIM, MYERS

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 08:54:03

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

HENRY KREIM, dealer in hardware, cutlery and nails, Second street; is a native of Cologne, River Rhine, Germany, and was born in 1822; he there learned the trade of baker and confectioner ; after reaching manhood, he emigrated to America in 1846; he came to Iowa City in the spring of 1848; lived there one year and in Davenport two years ; came to Lyons in 1851, and opened a hotel; he afterward started a bakery and confectionery and then a grocery store, and for the past four years he has carried on the hardware business; he built and owns the block where he now carries on the hardware and grocery trade; when he began life he had nothing; had but $16 when he reached this country. He married Mary C. Myers, from Germany, in 1849; have four children-Harmonn, Mary. Henry and Willie. Mr. Kreim and Henry carry on the hardware store; his sons Harmonn and Willie carry on the grocery store.