Ingwersen, Martin

INGWERSEN, CARSTENSEN, MOESER

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Date: 1/28/2003 at 13:50:36

MARTIN INGWERSEN
Martin Ingwersen, the junior member of the well-known firm of Arlen & Ingwersen, of Clinton, is a native of Germany, born in Schleswig-Holstein, June 16, 1860, and is a son of I.M. and Margareta Ingwersen, who spent their entire lives in that country. The mother died while our subject was serving in the Germany army, and he found his father dead on returning to his native land to see him, having passed away the day our subject sailed from New York.
Mr. Ingwersen received his education in the schools of Germany, and at the age of nineteen entered the army, serving for three years in a cavalry regiment. On receiving his discharge in the fall of 1882, he came to the United States and settled in Clinton county, Iowa, where he worked on a farm during the following year. In 1884 he entered the employ of Gardner, Batchelder & Wells, and worked in their sawmill for a time.
In the spring of 1885 Mr. Ingwersen entered the service of Arlen & Son, and on the death of the senior partner, in 1890, he became a member of the firm, which was reorganized under the name of Arlen & Ingwersen. Business was first started by this company in 1870. They deal quite extensively in coal, wood, etc.; are agents for the following brewing companies: Pabst of Milwaukee; Tosetti, of Chicago; and Anhauser-Busch, of St. Louis; and are engaged in the manufacture of soft drinks of all kinds, about sixteen in all. The last named branch of their business has become quite an important industry, and they make large shipments of pop throughout the surrounding country as far west as Ames, Iowa, a distance of two hundred miles. In the manufacture of soft drinks they use pure artesian water exclusively from a well twelve hundred feet deep, and put up the same in the latest drown cork bottles. Their bottling works and office are located at the corner of First street and Sixth avenue. Mr. Ingwersen was married in Clinton, in 1886, to Miss Marie Carstensen, also a native of Germany, who died, leaving three children: Andrea, Paul and Ella; and for his second wife he wedded Miss Frances Moeser, of Clinton, by who he has to children: Hugo and Mollie.
Mr. Ingwersen is a prominent member of several civic societies, including the Knights of Pythias, in which he has served as treasurer, and engineer, with the rank of colonel, in the Iowa Brigade of the Uniformed Rank of that order. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of the Royal Arch, the Turners Society, and German Society. He has been president of both the Clinton County Liquor Dealers' Association and the Iowa State Bottlers' Association; and is a delegate to the national convention of the Bottlers' Association, at Cleveland, in October, 1901. As president of the Clinton County Liquor Dealers' Association, he has used every honorable means to bring about a just and satisfactory settlement; and his position has met with the approval of the county and city officers as well as the representative business men of the city. In 1900 he was presented with a very fine gold medal by that association in appreciation of services rendered as president of the organization.  
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.