Klopping, Henry William

KLOPPING, STUCKMEIER, HIRT, VIETH, WAGGONER

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Date: 9/10/2009 at 17:16:11

Klopping, Henry William

Of excellent German ancestry is Henry William Klopping, one of the most thrifty and up-to-date agriculturists of Mariposa Township, Jasper County, who is still residing on the farm on which he was born, being content to spend his life right here at home instead of seeking uncertain fortune in other fields. His birth occurred on December 27, 1865, and he is the son of Konrad and Louisa (Stuckmeier) Klopping, both born in Germany, the father in Lippe-Detmold, on January 13, 1830, and the mother on June 6, 1825. They both grew up in their native land and married and there devoted themselves to farming until they emigrated to Freeport, Illinois: where they lived a year and in the fall of 1856 they moved to Mariposa Township, Jasper County, Iowa, where the father traded a team of horses for forty acres of land and where the subject of this sketch now lives. The father prospered here through hard work and good management and added to his original purchase until he owned two hundred and eighty acres. He and his wife belonged to the Methodist Church. The father died on November 8, 1910, the mother having preceded him to the grave on November 5, 1906. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters, namely: Henry W., of this review, is the sixth in order of birth; the first two children, daughters, died in infancy: Mrs. Caroline Hirt; Konrad; Adolph, of Toledo, Ohio; Edward died when nine years old.

After leaving school No. 4, Mariposa Township, Henry W. Klopping rented the home farm one year when twenty years of age, later buying the entire two hundred and eighty acres of the homestead which he has kept under a high state of cultivation and improvement, rendering it one of the choice farms of the Township. He has remodeled the house and generally improved the place, all now denoting thrift and industry. He has been uniformly successful as a general farmer and stock raiser.

Politically, Mr. Klopping is a Republican and he has served on the local school board. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mr. Klopping was married on March 19,1890, to Carrie Vieth, who was born in Missouri on August 25, 1868, the daughter of Henry and Louisa (Waggoner) Vieth, he a native of Germany and she of Missouri. He spent his early life in the fatherland, emigrating from there to the United States in 1856 and locating in Missouri.

Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Klopping, of this sketch, named as follows: William, born September 22, 1892: Mary, born May 31, 1894: Elmer, born December 7, 1897: Esther, born February 8, 1900: Louis, born May 9, 1902: Roy, born January 23, 1905: Edith May, born October 16, 1909.

In connection with his general farming. Mr. Klopping is a well known breeder of Percheron horses, which, being of excellent grade, are much admired and never fail to bring good prices. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 871