Ralph Travis Schoenenberger

HARTSOOK, SCHOENENBERGER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/3/2004 at 14:14:24

Ralph Travis Schoenenberger, a progressive and representative agriculturist of Scott township, operates a farm of three hundred and eighty acres on section 19 and also carries on stock-raising with excellent results. His birth occurred in Walnut township, this county, on the 13th of December, 1878, his parents being John and Lavina (Travis) Schoenenberger, of whom more extended mention is made on another page of this work. He acquired his education in the county schools and at Winterset and when not busy with his text-books, assisted his father in the operation of the home farm, thus early on becoming familiar with all of the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He has made farming his life work and is now operating the E. E. McCall place of three hundred and eighty acres in Scott township, conducting it according to the most modern methods of agriculture and maintaining it as a productive and highly remunerative property. Mr. Schoenenberger likewise devotes considerable attention to stock-raising and has met with commendable success in all of his undertakings.

On the 28th of November, 1900, he was united in marriage to Miss Grace Adeline Hartsook, her parents being William and Catherine R. (Smoot) Hartsook, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this volume. To our subject and his wife have been born three children, namely: Kathryn Lovina, John H., and Paul. Mr. Schoenenberger gives his political allegiance to the democracy and has done valuable service as a member of the school board, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart champion. His entire life has been spent in Madison County and both he and his wife are widely and favorably known within the circle of their acquaintances.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1915."