PAHL, Henry

PAHL, FRANZEN

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 13:30:49

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

HENRY PAHL, a harness-maker of Westside, was born in Holstein, Germany, March 23,
1855, a son of Deitrich Pahl. The latter is still engaged in the harness-makers' trade in
Germany, aged seventy-seven years. Henry, the only son of his parents, received a good
education in his native language, and learned his trade at his father's work-bench. At the
age of seventeen years he came with an uncle to New York, and then to Clinton county,
Iowa, the latter having a son in that place. In 1885 Mr. Pahl came to Westside and
engaged in business, and he is now a dealer in and manufacturer of harness, saddles,
collars, blankets, nets, whips, brushes, and every article kept in a first-class harness shop.
He understands all the details of the business, buys the best leather, does good, honest
work, and sells at reasonable prices. His main store-room is 16x29 feet.

Mr. Pahl was married at the age of twenty-five years to Miss Sophia Franzen, a
native of Germany, who came with her parents to Clinton county, Iowa, at the age of ten
years. To this union was born four children: Clara, Willie, Harry and Ella. The great loss
of Mr. Pahl's life was in the death of his estimable and beloved wife, who died April 1,
1892, at Clinton, Iowa, where she had gone to attend her father's funeral. She was buried
in that city. Politically, our subject affiliates with the Democratic party; religiously, is a member of the German Lutheran Church; and socially is a member of the Five-Mile
Shooting Club. He is yet in the prime of life, jovial and social with all, and a popular
business man.