Schemmel, August

SCHEMMEL, BOWIE, JENSEN

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 12:48:31

SCHEMMEL, AUGUST

August Schemmel, for many years an active farmer on section 24, Richland Township, Lyon County, was born in Holstein, Germany, February 3, 1864, a son of Marcus and Margarette (Bowie) Schemmel, both of whom were natives of Holstein. The father brought his family to Scott County, Iowa in 1870, where he engaged in farming, an occupation in which he continued until 1884. That year he removed to Richland Township, Lyon County, Iowa, where he located on a farm in section 22. There he was still engaged in farming until his retirement to Alvord, where he is now making his home. He is sixty-four and his wife sixty-eight. Their children are as follows: August, a farmer in Richland Township; as are also Henry, William, Johannes, and the two sons-in-law, Fred Rumohr, who married Lena, and William Kahl, the husband of Emma.

August Schemmel secured his education in the public schools of Scott County, and very early began his career as a farmer by helping his father in the care of his extensive estate in Scott County and still later in Richland Township. A very considerable measure of success has attended his farming enterprises, and he is now the proprietor of four hundred acres of as choice farmland as may be found in the northwest. Here he carries on a diversified grain and stock raising; at the present time has twelve horses, a hundred cattle and one hundred and twenty-five hogs.

August Schemmel was married March 8, 1888 to Miss Mary Jensen, a resident of Scott County, Iowa. Her father, Hans H. Jensen came to Scott County from Holstein, Germany at an early day, and has been a life-long farmer. He is still living in Sioux County, Iowa where his wife died. They reared a family of nine children, five of whom are living, and of whom Mrs. Schemmel was the third born. Mr. and Mrs. Schemmel are the parents of four children, John A., Louisa, Lena, and Anna, all of whom are living and are at home. He has been school director for two years, and is a member of the Sons of Herman at Alvord. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Republican.

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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