Krampe, Kord H.

KRAMPE, DEPPING, HOLENSTINER, RHULMAN, HARRIS, KEER

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 8/13/2009 at 07:18:23

Kord H. Krampe, a general farmer and stock-raiser, and the owner of valuable land in Malaka Township, Jasper County, is the son of Henry and Reda (Depping) Krampe, natives of Germany, the father being a shoemaker by trade. In 1850, accompanied by his wife and children, he immigrated to America, and located upon heavily timbered land in Wisconsin. To the clearing land cultivating of his tract he devoted his attention, and was so successful that at the time of his demise he owned three hundred and twenty acres in Wisconsin. In politics he was a Republican, while religiously his affiliations were with the German Reformed Church. The family of which he was a member was characterized by longevity, and one of his sisters attained the age of one hundred. His wife was also strong and the possessor of a splendid physique, and when eighty-eight years old walked seven miles to church.

In the parental family there were the following children: Henry, Kord, Fred, Simon (deceased), Rega, Lotta and Mena. Kord Henry, of this sketch, was born in Germany, October 13, 1828, and was educated in his native land, though his schooling was limited. In his youth he learned the trade of shoemaker. He was twenty-three years old when the family immigrated to the United States, and after coming to this country he worked at his trade for a number of years. He was a teamster in Chicago when it was a city of seventy-five thousand in-habitants. In 1866, he located in Malaka Township, and with his savings purchased two hundred acres of land.

Mr. Krampe married Henrietta Holenstiner, a native of the same part of Germany as himself, and who immigrated to America with her mother three years after Mr. Krampe came. Ten children were born of this union, of whom the following are deceased; Charles, who died at the age of thirteen; Mary; Julius, who died when nineteen years of age; William, and one that died in infancy. The survivors are: Walter, who resides with his parents, Mena, Mrs. Rhulman; Lena, the wife of Howard Harris; Alwina, Mrs. Keer, and Lydia, who is at home.

The farm owned by Mr. Krampe consists of three hundred and four acres, upon which he has placed substantial buildings and the best of farm improvements. He is a Republican, but not a politician. While residing in the Fatherland he united with the German Reformed Church, with which he has since been identified, and all the members of his family belong to that denomination. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA Page 630.