H. J. (Henry John) Lehmkuhl

LEHMKUHL, NIELAND, PANKOW, HENNE

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Date: 10/24/2004 at 23:44:29

SOURCE:1910 JACKSON CO HISTORY PG 97
H. J. LEHMKUHL
H. J. (Henry John) Lehmkuhl,one of Jackson County's native sons, is numbered among the younger residents of Fairfield township who are devoting their entire time and energies to agricultural pursuits and in the cultivation of the soil are meeting with marked success. He was born on the 5th of February, 1879, and as the name indicates, is of German lineage, his parents being Henry and Caroline (Nieland)Lehmkuhl,natives of Germany, extended mention of whom is made on another page of this volume.

Reared amid the scenes and environment of farm life, H. J. Lehmkuhl attended the distrcit schools in the acquirement of an education and in the work of fields gained practical experience concrning the best methods of plowing, planting and harvesting. He remained on the home farm, giving his father the benefit of his assistance, until he attained man's estate, when he established a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Anna Pankow, who was born in Jackson county on 28th of January, 1880, and is one of a family of nine children born to William and Dora (Henne) Pankow. The father is now deceased, while the mother, who still survives, makes her home at Spragueville, Iowa. After their marriage the young couple began their domestic life on a farm of eighty acres purchased by Mr. Lehmkuhl, where they remained for three years, on the expiration of which period he sold that tract and invested in his present property of one hundred and forty-five acres in Fairfield township. On that farm he has since continued to engage in general agricultural pursuits, bringing his fields under a high state of cultivation, and in connection with tilling the soil he makes a specialty of dairying, this branch of his business proving most successful and remunerative. His business interests are wisely and carefully managed. He is painstaking and systematic in his methods and everything about his place indicates that he is in touch with the modern spirit of progress which is manifest in agricultural lines.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lehmkuhl have been born four children, Ernest F., Adolph W., Dora C., and Rudulph, all of whom are still under the parental roof, the family circle remaining unbroken by the hand of death. The parents are members of of the Lutheran church, in the work of which they are deeply interested, while in politics Mr. Lehmkuhl gives stalwart allegiance to the democratic party, although the honors and emoluments of office have no attraction for him. He prefers rather to concentrate his entire attention upon the conduct of his business affairs, his careful supervision of which has already brought him a gratifying measure of success which augurs well for a bright future.