REKENTHALER, August E. (1863-1941)

REKENTHALER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/30/2021 at 20:47:04

August E. Rekenthaler
(January 15, 1863 – January 10, 1941)

A. E. Rekenthaler, residing on a farm near Holstein in Battle township, Ida County, Iowa, is one of the representative men of this vicinity, and is at present Assessor of the township in which he lives. Mr. Rekenthaler dates his birth in Iowa County, Wisconsin, January 15, 1863. His father, Simon Rekenthaler, was born and reared in Germany, and when a young man came to the United States and located in Iowa county, Wisconsin, where he was subsequently married to Johanna (Fritch) a native of Germany and a resident of Wisconsin from her early childhood, having come to this country with her parents and settled in Iowa county. The senior Mr. Rekenthaler afterward moved to Grant County, where he spent the rest of his life and died. He was by occupation a farmer, and in politics a Democrat. Of his twelve children nine are now living. A. E. Rekenthaler was reared in Grant County, Wisconsin. He made his first visit to Iowa in 1880, coming in October and spending some time with his brothers and sisters. Again, in 1883, he came to Iowa and spent one season in Ida county, and in the spring of 1885 located permanently in Battle township, this county.
He was married at the age of twenty-three in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Celia Miller, who was born in Linn county, this State, daughter of J. D. and Jane (Rogers) Miller, both of Battle Township. Mr. and Mrs. Rekenthaler have three children: Bertha, Frank and Mamie. Mr. Rekenthaler is one of the leading spirits at his place in the Democratic party. He has served two years as Justice of the Peace and is now serving as Township Assessor. He is a young man of sterling qualities, is frank and cordial in his manner, and few men in the township have a larger circle of friends than he. He owns a good farm of 160 acres in Pierce county, Nebraska.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.531