Kramer, George W.

KRAMER, WAGNER

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/22/2006 at 16:39:22

KRAMER, GEORGE W.

Mr. Kramer, who is still a young man, has deservedly won a high place among the successful farmers of Logan township, Lyon county, where his farm of a half section is located, which shows at every point the touch of a master hand.

Experienced alike in the theory and practice of agriculture, he has joined with his theory industry and practical good sense, and as a result while barely over thirty he has become prosperous. A portrait of Mr. Kramer is presented on another page of the volume.

Mr. Kramer was born in Dubuque county, Iowa, in 1873, his birthplace being on a farm, where his entire life has been spent. Jacob Kramer, his father, was born in Germany, and came to this country in 1854, when he had barely turned the age of ten years. He became a pioneer in Iowa, and by industry and economy grew to be wealthy. George W., his son, is the second oldest living member of a family that comprised nine children, and as a boy he had his full share of the farm work, and early learned to bear a hand at every labor the cultivation of the paternal acres demanded. In 1888 the family removed to Lyon county, and made their home in section 10, Doon township. There George W. Kramer attained his manhood, and in 1897 came to his present estate, which his father had bought in 1892, when it was held by the state as school land. At the time of his advent it was raw prairie without a sign of improvement, and the young proprietor found his work fully marked out for him.

A shelter for himself and help was to be erected, as well as another for his stock, the ground was to be broken, and put into condition for cultivation, the crops were to be fenced and cared for--vast is the labor to make read a prairie farm even under the most favorable circumstances. All this however was well and faithfully done, and good buildings as well as a handsome grove now adorn the place. Here he owns three hundred and twenty acres, which he has brought into a most productive state by unremitting push and energy, and may well be proud of his finely appointed rural home.

The marriage of Mr. Kramer and Miss Theresa Wagner occurred in 1898. She was born in Delaware county, where her father, Mathias Wagner, has long been engaged in farming. To this union have come two children, a son and a daughter, William and Lizzie. The future of the Kramer family is bright, and a wide circle of friends will be glad to read the story of their honorable and useful lives.

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

Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner, Darlene Jacoby and Diane Johnson