Schenck, Tunis

SCHENCK, HAYES, IRVING

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 11/29/2008 at 17:52:51

SCHENCK, Tunis.
President of the Monroe Bank and one of the firm SCHENCK & DIX, proprietors of the Monroe City Mills, Monroe. Born in Monmouth Co., N. J. in 1822, where he remained until he was 18 years of age. He then moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1853. He then moved to this State, settled in Mahaska Co. and engaged in milling. He remained in Mahaska Co. until the Fall of 1863. He then moved to Marion Co.; engaged in milling at Red Rock; thence to Pella in 1857, where he engaged in milling. He moved to Monroe in 1868. He married Caroline HAYES in Westmoreland Co., Penn.; she was born in Allegheny Co., Penn. They have eleven children, five of whom are living - Sarah (now Mrs. Jas. IRVING), William D., Ada, Ida and Charley. Mr. SCHENCK, politically, is a Democrat. Since his residence in Monroe, he has always taken an active interest in its welfare, and is identified with her leading business enterprises. ~ Fairview Township Biographies "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)

Transcriber's note: The original book gives the date for moving to Pella as 1857. This is not a transcription error. It may have been a typographical error in the original book, however, as 1867 would have been made more sense chronologically.