Albert H. Meester

MEESTER, WILFANK, RIPPENTRIAP

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Date: 8/20/2010 at 14:58:15

ALBERT H. MEESTER (1893) is one of the successful farmers and large land owners of Kanaranzi township. He owns 240 acres on section 19, 160 acres on section 31, Kanaranzi township, and 243 acres in Clinton township, making him the possessor of 643 acres of Rock county's productive soil.

Germany is Albert Meester's native land, and it was on October 12, 1859, that he first saw the light of day. He is the son of Henry and Annie (Wilfank) Meester. His mother died in the fatherland at the age of thirty-six years. With his father the nine year old Albert came to America, and for the first year lived in Ogle county, Illinois. Then a home was made in Grundy county, Iowa, and there it was the youth developed into manhood. In 1883 our subject cast his eyes toward South Dakota, and in Turner county he took a homestead, upon which he lived ten years. At the end of that time in 1893, he sold out and became a resident of Rock county, settling upon the farm which has since continued to be his home. For eight years he has served on the Kanaranzi township board of supervisors and is at present chairman of the board. He owns telephone stock and is affiliated with the German Presbyterian church.

At Lennox, South Dakota, on March 28, 1884, Mr. Meester was joined in wedlock to Katie Rippentriap. They are the parents of three sons and three daughters, as follows: Eilert A., born May 15, 1885; Henry J., born May 23, 1887; Johannes A., born December 7, 1891; Sina, born October 7, 1893; Annie, born August 29, 1895; and Molly, born June 16, 1905.

Source:
An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
1911