Frank H. Budde

BUDDE, HAVERKAMP, BORMANN, WELCH, DEMPEWOLF, SCHULTES, CAPESIUS, RUBEL, FUEGEN

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History of Jackson County, Iowa, Volume 2, by James Whitcomb Ellis, 1910. Biographical Sketches

F. H. BUDDE.

F. H. Budde, who tills a fine tract of land of two hundred and thirty-five acres in Jackson township, has contributed in no small degree to the progress of the community, along moral, intellectual and economic lines, and the record of his life reflects creditably upon the country of his birth and that of his adoption. He was born in Germany in 1840, and was about a year old when his parents emi' grated to America. For three years they lived at Germantown, Jackson county. Illinois, and in the spring of 1844 came to Jackson county, Iowa, locating in Prairie Spring township. There the father entered two hundred and forty acres of land, whereon he built a rude cabin of logs, with a clapboard roof, a puncheon floor and a door. He also broke the sod and engaged in cultivating his fields and met with a fair degree of success. He died in this county and his wife passed away while the family was living in Illinois. There were eight children bom to them, four of whom still survive.

F. H. Budde was about four years of age when the family home was established in Jackson county, Iowa, and all the hardships of the pioneer days had not been surmounted when he was able to bear his share in the work of the farm. He remained under the parental roof until he was fourteen years of age, when he went to Wisconsin to attend school. In 1854 he suffered an accident which deprived him of one of his limbs. While he was leading a horse to water he became entangled in the halter and was dragged for a mile and a half, so fracturing his leg that it was impossible to save it. When his own education was completed he engaged in teaching, following that profession for about nineteen years, when he married and bought a farm of seventy-five acres, which he tilled through the summer months, while the winter months were devoted to teaching. His unremitting industry and his careful expenditures soon brought him the capital that enabled him in 1878 to purchase one hundred and sixty additional acres, so that now he has a valuable property of two hundred and thirty-five acres. He makes his home upon the second farm he bought. He has added several substantial buildings to the place, besides improving it in other ways, and has brought its fields to a high state of cultivation. Systematic and thorough in everything that he undertakes he has gained a gratifying measure of prosperity from his business, and may now be numbered among the well-to-do farmers of Jackson township.

In 1864 Mr. Budde was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Haverkamp, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, and was about six years of age when her parents came to the United States. They settled in Jackson county, Iowa, which remained their home until their demise. In their family were seven children, two of whom are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Budde have had thirteen children, as follows: Henry, who married Barbara Bormann and lived in Rapids City, South Dakota; Frank, deceased; Joe, who married Ella Welch and lives near Maquoketa; Antone, who married Lizzie Demperwolf and resides in Brookings county, South Dakota; Frank, who married Lizzie Schultes and lives in Lincoln county, South Dakota; William, deceased; Rose, who makes her home in Sioux City, Iowa; Mary, the wife of F. Caposions, a resident of Dell Rapids, South Dakota; Ida, the wife of Charles Rubel, of Rosebud, South Dakota; Melchoir; Cynthia, the wife of John Fuegen, a resident of Parkston, South Dakota; Leo; and Walter. In his political views Mr. Budde is a democrat and has taken some part in the local public affairs, having served as township assessor for fourteen years, as collector for two years, and as school director for a considerable period. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church and their influence is always found on the side of right and progress, while in his business affairs, Mr. Budde has prospered, owing to his integrity as well as to his industry.