Herman Schliekelmann 1819-1893

MUMKE, SCHLIEKELMANN, HULLERMANN, BALASTER, WILMHOFF, BOCKELMAN

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Date: 9/20/2016 at 13:16:42

Dyersville: Its History and its People (Published in 1939)

Herman Schliekelmann was born in Steinfeld, Oldenburg, Germany, in 1819. He came to America in 1850 with his sister Teresa and Bernard Meyer. At Cincinnati Herman married Elizabeth Mumke in 1854. After running a dairy farm one year in that vicinity they came to New Wine Township and built the Schliekelmann homestead on the northeast corner of section 21 on a parcel of land which they bought in 1855, now a part of the Hullermann Brothers farms. They sold this place to Herman Wilmhoff about 1886 and moved to Alton, Iowa to live with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Bockelman. There Mrs. Schliekelmann died. Mr. Schliekelmann came back to Dyersville and lived with his son Clem, until his death on March 29, 1893.

The Schliekelmann children were: Herman, Sophia (Mrs. Henry Bockelman), Mary (Mrs. Frank Bockelman), John, Henry, Elizabeth (Mrs. Tony Balaster), and Clem.