ZANKE, JOSEPH

ZANKE, HULBURT

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Date: 6/9/2004 at 16:58:50

Biography reproduced from page 430 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Joseph Zanke is a native of Prussia, born Nov. 2, 1835. He followed milling in the old country. In 1869 he emigrated to America, locating in Whitewater, Wis., where he remained one year, working in a mill. In 1870 he removed to Algona township, this county. He purchased eighty acres of land on section 35, and has since bought 160 acres of wild prairie land on section 34. He now has buildings on the latter, which cost over $2,000. Mr. Zanke was married May 5, 1870, to Helen Hulburt, a native of Germany. They have had four children – Joseph N., Mary, Emma and George. Mr. Zanke is a member of the Catholic Church. Politically, he is a democrat. Mr. Zanke stands in the front ranks of the enterprising and go-ahead farmers of Kossuth county.