Busing, Ernest D.

BUSING, WEPPEL, GERBER, HERMANN

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Date: 5/22/2009 at 22:14:42

History of Hamilton County Iowa, Vol.II,1912 p.434

ERNEST D. BUSING

Ernest D. Busing engages in general farming and stock-raising in Independence township, where he owns two hundred and forty acres of land, one hundred and sixty of which comprises the old family homestead, on which his birth occurred on the i6th of December, 1871. He is the third in order of birth of the five children, now living, who were born to Harm and Anna (Weppel) Busing. The parents were born, reared and married in Germany, whence they emigrated to the United States about 1864, locating in Illinois, where they resided for seven years. In 1871, they came to Hamilton County, the father purchasing a quarter of section 16, Independence township, in the cultivation and improvement of which he engaged during the remainder of his life. There he passed away on October 15, 1910, at the age of seventy-three years, but the mother, who has passed the seventy-second anniversary of her birth, is still living and makes her home in Kamrar, this township.

Agricultural pursuits have always engaged the attention of Ernest D. Busing, who began assisting his father with the tilling of the fields and care of the crops in his early boyhood. His services were given to his parents until he attained his majority, after which his father hired him for two years at the usual wages paid for farm labor. At the expiration of that time he began farming for himself as a renter, continuing to lease land six years. During that period he acquired the necessary capital to buy eighty acres of section 17, on which he located in 1900, and has ever since made this his home. After the death of his father he bought the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead and is now engaged in the operation of both places. His land is fenced, one hundred and sixty acres of it hog tight, and his fields are tiled and under high cultivation, and annually yield abundant harvests. In connection with general farming, Mr. Busing raises shorthorn cattle, Shire horses and Duroc Jersey hogs, and is meeting with a good measure of success in his undertakings. All of the improvements on the old home place were made during the lifetime of his father, but Mr. Busing has enhanced the value of his own farm by the erection of new buildings and the addition of various conveniences.

In 1898 in this county was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Busing and Miss Margaret Gerber, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Hermann) Gerber, natives, respectively, of Germany and Illinois. They were married in the latter state and in 1878 removed to Iowa, locating on a farm in Hamilton County, in the cultivation of which the father engaged until his retirement. He is now sixty-one years of age and the mother fifty-four and they make their home in Webster City.

Fraternally Mr. Busing is a member of Elmo Lodge, No. 62, I. O. O. F., of Webster City, and he is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. He votes the democratic ticket and has been a member of the school board for the past six years while he served for one term as assessor. Mr. Busing is enterprising in his methods, practical in his ideas and persevering in his purpose, and in the development of his interests is meeting with the success he justly merits.