Lenhart, John

LENHART, JOHNSON

Posted By: Laura Evans Schnabel (email)
Date: 2/9/2007 at 10:45:31

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Webster and Hamilton Counties, Iowa
Published 1888
pp. 335-336

John Lenhart, section 16, Fremont Township, was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 17,1838, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Richards) Lenhart, natives of France, where they were married. After coming to America they settled in Ohio, and later moved to Hamilton County, Iowa, where the mother died and the father still lives. In 1850 our subject went to DeKalb County, Indiana, and lived six years, and in 1856 came to Iowa and lived in Dubuque County two years, and then in Buchanan County until 1861, when he went overland to California, and worked in the mines. In 1862 he went to Oregon and two months later to Idaho, and worked in Florence mines on the Saluma River thirty days, then returned to Oregon and spent the winter, and in the spring of 1863 went again to Idaho and worked in the mines until the fall of 1864, when he went to British Columbia, and one month later went to Montana, and remained until 1867, engaged in mining and blacksmithing. In 1867 he went to Alaska via British Columbia, and in the fall of the same year returned to Montana and lived until 1873, when he came to Hamilton County, Iowa and bought the farm where he now lives. Mr. Lenhart is patentee and proprietor of the Lenhart Plow, which is adapted to any kind of soil and is undoubtedly the best plow made. He is an enterprising man and one of the representative citizens of the township. He was married April 4, 1875, To Anna, daughter of Olaf and Cornelia (Julia) Johnson. they have six children --Charles O., John J., Anna, Victor Hugo, Sarah and George. In politics Mr. Lenhart is independent.