HENRY B LIENNEMANN, b 12 Feb 1860

LIENNEMANN, HORSTIC, SEIGLE

Posted By: Donna Moldt Walker (email)
Date: 6/16/2004 at 22:37:56

Our subject is a fine representative of the vigorous, wide-awake young men, natives of Jackson County, who are materially promoting its highest interests. He is extensively engaged in farming and raising full-blooded and graded stock, and now owns and is successfully managing the old homestead in Perry Township, that was his birthplace, he having purchased it of his father. It is considered one of the most valuable farms in this vicinity, and comprises 300 acres, 220 on section 4 and eighty on section 5, of land of exceeding fertility and productiveness.

The father of our subject, Brachiler Liennemann, was a pioneer of Jackson County, though not among its earliest settlers, and while he lived here did much to advance its great agricultural interests. He is a German by birth, born in the Province of Hanover in 1819. His father, Peter L. Linnemann, also a native of Germany, was a weaver and did custom work. During the war of the French against Prussia he was among the Germans who were pressed into service. In 1851 he emigrated to this country, and located in Jackson County, where he carried on farming until his death. The father of our subject, when twelve years of age, went to sea and was a sailor until he was twenty-one years old. During that time he sailed around the earth, the voyage taking thirty-six months, and he visited all parts of the globe. At one time he was shipwrecked on the coast of England and narrowly escaped drowning, but managed to save himself by clinging to a sack of clothes, on which he drifted ashore. In 1852 he gave up his sea-faring life and coming to the United States located in Petersburg, Ill. where he bought a farm, and was engaged in farming two years. In 1854 he came to Jackson County, this State, and settling in Perry Township, purchased a tract of eighty acres of land, and actively entered upon its improvement. From time to time he bought other land until he owned 450 acres, all under splendid improvement. He continued to carry on his extensive agricultural operations here until 1882, and in the fall of that year he sold all his preperty in this township, and, moving to Winterset, Madison County, is now a resident of that place, where he owns about 400 acres of improved land. He is a man of more than ordinary enterprise and capacity, and richly deserves the prosperity that has come to him through his persistent and well-directed labors.

Mr. Liennemann is highly esteemed as a member of the Lutheran Church. He is a Democrat in politics, and socially belongs to the Masonic Lodge at Andrew. His wife shares the good will and respect in which he is held. Her maiden name was Johanna Horstic, and she was born in Hanover, Germany, fifty-seven years ago. Her father was a merchant in the old country prior to his emigration, in 1859, to the United States, where he passed his last years with his children. Mr. Liennemann has been twice married, and by his first marriage had one child - John, now a farmer in Madison County. He and his present wife have seven children living, namely: Henry B.; Peter, in Madison County; Lena, in Richland; Brack, Annie and William at home with their parents; Emma, in Perry Township.

Henry B. Liennemann, of whom we write, was born in Perry Township, Jackson Co., Iowa, Feb. 12, 1860. He was reared to a stalwart and noble manhood on the old homestead, and was educated in the district school until he was seventeen years old. He remained at home until he was twenty-four years old, working for his father after he attained his majority, affording him valuable assistance in improving the farm. In 1882 he rented the old place, and in the fall of 1885 bought 300 acres of it. It is all neatly fenced, has a substantial set of suitable farm buildings, including a large barn, 44x64 feet in dimensions. The land is well watered by Farmers' Creek, and has a fine orchard of choice fruit trees. He is especially interested in raising stock, and has a fine herd of full-blooded Durhams, seventy head in all, besides some high-graded cattle, Poland-China hogs, of which he raises one car-load each year, and he has two teams of fine horses.

Sept. 17, 1885, Mr. Liennemann and Miss Mary Seigle were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, in Scales Mound Township, Ill., and to them two children have been born - William and Lawrence. Mrs. Liennemann was born in Guilford Township, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., and is a daughter of Martin Seigle, a farmer of Jo Daviess County.

Mr. Liennemann is a young man of high personal character, whose manliness and fine disposition have gained him many warm friends, and he and his wife occupy a high social position in this community. They are both members in good standing of the Lutheran Church at Andrew. In politics Mr. Liennemann is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party. In him his native town finds a public-spirited citizen who does all in his power to promote the various schemes proposed for its advancement. In his capacity of Road Supervisor, this being the third year that he has been an incumbent of that office, he is doing much for the benefit of the traveling public by keeping the highways in good repair and improving them as much as possible.

("Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois.)