Samuel L. & Mary (Durst) Streif

STREIF, DURST, HOSLI, HOSH, BARTMAN

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Their son, Samuel L. Streif, the immediate subject of this memoir, attended the public schools during boyhood and remained with his parents until twenty-one years old. For three years he rented 160 acres of his father and then purchased same and continued to farm it two years longer. He rented his farm for one year and then sold it, also disposing of forty acres which he had improved just west of farley, after which he removed to the Sioux Valley, South Dakota, and farmed 320 acres which he purchased there. After seven years spent there, he disposed of his property and rented land one year near Coffeeville in Montgomery County, Kansas after which he went west and resided about nine months in the State of Washington. He then spent four months at Sioux City, Iowa, after which he returned to Dubuque county, purchased 140 acres in Section 7, Taylor Township, and has remained here ever since.

Mr. Streif has improved his land, fenced it in, and erected various outhouses, and in 1904 built his present fine, modern, brick residence. He bears the reputation of having one of the finest of the modern farms in the entire county, and also owns several other larger tracts in Iowa Township, which he improved. He is well known as a breeder of fine Herefordshire cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs and Norman and Clyde horses, and also engages extensively in dairying. He has thirty-two fine milk cows and a separator on each farm, separating his own milk and cream, and send the cream to the Co-operative Creamery at Farley, of which concern he is a stockholder.

He is also a stockholder in the Farley State Bank. Mr. Streif is a Republican in his political views, but, like his father before him, has never aspired to hold office. In 1886, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Durst, the second of a family of fourteen children born to Gabriel and Christina (Hosli) Durst, who were both natives of Switzerland. Her parents immigrated to America in the spring of 1870, settling in Tennessee, and in 1875 came to Dubuque county. In 1893 they removed to Blackhawk county, Iowa, where they resided five years, and then went to CoffeEville, Kansas, where they passed away, the mother in 1899, aged fifty-five, and the father in 1907, aged 63. Both are buried at that place.

To Mr. and Mrs. Streif twelve children have been born, named as follows: Peter, unmarried, operating one of his father's farms in Iowa township; Emma, wife of Christopher Bartmann, of Dubuque county; Ida; Laura; Rosa; Glenn; Mabel; Bert, who died in infancy, aged twenty months; Lawrence, who died at the age of six; Samuel; Robert; and Mary.

Mr. Streif is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and he and family are communicants of the Presbyterian church at Farley. They are highly respected in the community where they reside.

From: History of Dubuque County, Iowa. 1911. Pg 562