Henry Nurre

NURRE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/8/2012 at 20:02:32

Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa, Volume 2, page 720

HENRY NURRE, farmer, Sec. 3; P.O. Brown's Station; he was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1814; emigrated to America in 1836; arrived in Baltimore in June; went from there to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Pittsburg and Cincinnati; he came to Clinton County, Iowa in 1840 and has been a resident of Waterford Township the greater part of the time since. He was a member of the County Board of Supervisors five years, and was elected Chairman of the body in 1878; he is Justice of the Peace, which office he has held fourteen consecutive years; he has also held various township and school offices. Mr. Nurre has been married three times; he married Mary Fehring in 1844 in Cincinnati, Ohio; she died August 24, 1855. Second wife was Anna A. Aldehirt, a native of Germany; she died in 1860. Present wife, Elizabeth Finke; she had three children by a former marriage-John, Mary(now Mrs. Joseph G. Nurre) and Elizabeth. Mr. Nurre's children are Joseph G. and Katherine(now Mrs. John Reiff). Mr. Nurre and wife are members of the Catholic Church; he is a Democrat. He owns 440 acres of land, and is one of the first farmers of Waterford Township.

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