Noble Warrum Loehr

ABBOTT, BURNS, CHILCOAT, LOEHR, REED, REINMUCH, RICHMOND, RIPPEY, TRAUTWEIN, WARRUM

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2005 at 16:33:41

Noble W. Loehr has resided in Madison county the greater part of the time since 1862 and has been an interested observer of the great changes that have occurred here in that time. He owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Walnut township, but makes his home with a daughter, Mrs. E. L. Richmond, of Lincoln township. He was born in Hancock county, Indiana, on the 12th of April, 1840, a son of Daniel S. and Mary Ann (Warrum) Loehr, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky.

The father farmed for many years and for thirty years served as bailiff in the court at Noblesville, Indiana. The mother died when our subject was only six years old and the father subsequently remarried. He too passed away in the Hoosier state. There were four children by each of his marriages but our subject is the only one to come to Iowa.

Noble W. Loehr passed the days of his boyhood and youth in his native state and in 1860, three days before his twentieth birthday, he left Indiana and with his father made the long and ofttimes perilous trip across the plains to the gold fields of Colorado. The father, however, was familiar with the trails, as he had made the trip the year previous. In the fall of 1860 Mr. Loehr of this review returned east, but again went to Colorado, where he remained until 1862.

In that year he located in Lincoln township, Madison county, Iowa, and purchased eighty acres of land. From that time until his retirement from active life he devoted his energies entirely to agricultural pursuits and was the owner of two different farms in Webster township. Subsequently he acquired a two hundred and eighty acre farm in Adair county. For four years he lived upon a farm in Union county, but he is now residing with his daughter, Mrs. E. L. Richmond, of Lincoln township, this county. He has put aside all business cares but still owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Walnut township.

On January 26, 1864, Mr. Loehr married in Lincoln township Miss Hope Anna Rippey, a daughter of Matthew and Sarah Rippey. She was born in New Jersey on the 7th of October, 1846, and came with her parents to this county in 1856, and passed away on the 24th of July, 1912. She was the mother of seven children, namely: Willis, who married Miss Callie Chilcoat and resides in Wyoming; Daniel, who married Miss Mary Trautwein and who is farming in Monroe township; Nora, the deceased wife of Oscar Burns, of Adair county; Willard, who married Miss Etta Reed and who now lives in Monroe township; Mary, the wife of Jesse Abbott, of Alberta, Canada; Effie, the wife of John Reinmuth, of Sacramento, California; and Lulu, now Mrs. E. L. Richmond, of Lincoln ownship.
Mr. Loehr is an adherent of the republican party and supports its policies with his ballot. For many years he has belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and has ordered his life in accordance with the highest moral principles. He was successful as a farmer and deserves the period of rest and leisure that is now his.

Taken from the book, “The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1915,” by Herman Mueller.