Junge, Henry

JUNGE, SCHMIDT

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/22/2006 at 16:03:24

JUNGE, HENRY

Henry Junge, now a well-to-do farmer and leading citizen of the township of Logan, Lyon county, presents in his own career a striking illustration of the field of opportunity this new northwest long offers the ambitious children of the old world, as well as the rich results that have long waited on industry and integrity. The readiness with which they adapt themselves to circumstances, and their willingness to pay any price of privation and labor for the prize opens the door, and they make the "wilderness blossom as the rose."

Henry Junge was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1866, where his father John H., sustained an honest name as an industrious farm laborer. Henry was the youngest member of a family of six children, and was reared to manhood in the old Fatherland under the parental roof tree. In 1882 he sought the larger life of the United States, and landing in New York city came straight through to Davenport, Iowa, where for some six years he found employment at farm labor, in which he was also engaged for some six years in Tama county. In 1894 he came into Lyon county, and for the ensuing twelve months was also engaged in farm labor. The second year here he bought the southwest quarter of section 14, Logan township, then an absolute wilderness. Now it is in fine cultivation. His first building was a structure which he used as both a granary and a stable. In 1896 he built a house and all the structures for the efficient handling of the place and thestoring of machinery.

Mr. Junge was married in 1896 to Miss Catharine Schmidt, who was born in Germany, where her father, Mathias, had won a good standing as a farmer in Schleswig. She came to this country in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Junge are the parents of two children, Johnnie and Minnie

Mr. Junge devotes his time very closely to his farm, and has brought it forward to a high pitch of fertility. With the little capital he had to work with, and his small start, his friends consider that he has done wonderfully well, and that his career in Lyon county is to be regarded as a marked success.

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

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