John C. Nissen

NISSEN, STREETS, WEBB

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Date: 5/18/2010 at 21:23:31

History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910, James W. Ellis

John C. Nissen acquired his education in the common schools and remained under the parental roof until he had attained the age of eighteen years. At that time, in association with two of his brothers, he purchased a farm in Maquoketa township but after two years disposed of the property. Subsequently he spent a year as a farm hand and then rented a tract of land in Farmers Creek township, devoting his attention to its cultivation for two years. On the expiration of that period he purchased one hundred and eighten acres of land in Brandon township but sold the property at the end of two years and for a year was engaged in the operation of a rented farm in Maquoketa township. He next bought his present place of ninety-six acres in South Fork township, which is a highly improved and valuable farm situated a mile and a half north of Maquoketa. He likewise owns a tract of forty acres in Maquoketa township and in the careful conduct of his agricultural interests has won a measure of prosperity that entitles him to recognition among the substantial and representative citizens of the community.
On the l0th of March, 1909, Mr. Nissen was united in marriage to Miss Cora L. Streets, whose birth occurred in Farmers Creek township, this county, on the 24th of January, 1888, her parents being Thomas and Jane (Webb) Streets, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Jackson county, this state. Both still survive and are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community in which they reside. They have become the parents of twelve children. Although one of the younger representatives of agricultural interests in Jackson county, Mr. Nissen has already attained a measure of success that augurs well for the future. Both he and his wife have spent their entire lives in this county and enjoy in large measure the kindly regard and friendship of all who know them.