Henry M. Kunnen

KUNNEN, STAFFUS, FOREMAN

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 23:03:24

Kunnen, Henry M., farmer, Section 8 (Auburn township); PO Old Mission; born in Germany in 1835. Married Gertrude Staffus, who died in 1869; had three children --- Maggie, John and Teresa. Came to this country with his father, George H., in 1850; he is now 86 years of age; first settled in Pennsylvania two years, when he removed to Indiana, and in 1854, came to this county; in 1859, he settled on his present estate; has a farm of 160 acres, valued at $25 per acre. His present wife, Celia Foreman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1850; have two children --- Louis L. and Magdalene. Both members of the St. Lucas Catholic Church.

Page 755, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"