William L. Mangler

MANGLER, LAMPE, FELDERMAN, GOEPFERT

Posted By: Richard Lowe (email)
Date: 3/13/2003 at 22:42:48

WILLIAM L. MANGLER.

William L. Mangler, the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres on sections 10 and 15, Richland township, is an agriculturist whose carefully directed labors are annually rewarded by bounteous harvests. His birth occurred in Washington township, Jackson county, Iowa, on the 17th of August, 1875, his parents being William J. and Minnie (Lampe) Mangler, both of whom are natives of Germany. They crossed the Atlantic to the United States in an early day and are still numbered among the worthy and respected residents of Washington township, this county. They reared a family of twelve children, eleven of whom yet survive.

William L. Mangler attended the common schools in pursuit of his early education and for one year was a student in the high school at Miles. He remained at home until he had attained the age of twenty-five years. He then purchased a farm in Van Buren township, but after residing thereon for three years disposed of the property and bought his present place of one hundred and sixty acres on sections 10 and 15, Richland township, where he has since carried on his agricultural interests with excellent success. He has brought the fields under a high state of cultivation and improvement through the utilization of modem and progressive methods of agriculture, and is well entitled to recognition among the prosperous and enterprising farmers of his native county.

In 1906 Mr. Mangler was united in marriage to Miss Anna Goepfert, a native of Jackson county, Iowa, and a daughter of Conrad and Mary (Felderman) Goepfert, who are still living in this county. Mrs. Mangler was one of a family of nine children, eight of whom are living, and by her marriage has become the mother of two, Alvin C. and Florence M.

Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, Mr. Mangler has given his political allegiance to the men and measures of the democracy, but he has not sought office as a reward for his party fealty. In religious faith both he and his wife are Lutherans. They are well known throughout the county in which they have spent their entire lives and are much esteemed by a large circle of warm friends.

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Source: History of Jackson County Iowa V.2 - J. W. Ellis