Baune, Henry

BAUNE, SCHULTZ

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Plym. CC (email)
Date: 2/21/2005 at 17:06:08

Henry Baune

Henry Baune, one of Remsen township's well-known and substantial farmers, is a native of Germany, but has been a resident of this country since 1880. He was born in the grand duchy of Oldenburg on September 8, 1864, son of August and Dena Baune, who also were born in Oldenburg and who remained there, the father being there engaged as a carpenter, until 1880, in which year they came with their family to the United States and settled in Delaware county, this state. There August Baune rented a farm on which he established his home and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1889. His widow is now living with her son, Charles Baune, in Sioux county. August Baune and wife were the parents of nine children, four of whom are still living, but only one of whom, the subject of this sketch, is a resident of Plymouth county.

Reared in his native land, Henry Baune remained there until 1880, when he accompanied his parents and the other members of the family to this country and engaged with his father in farming in Delaware county, this state, continuing thus engaged until the time of his father's death in 1889. The next year he married and in the spring of the following year, on March 1, 1889, came over to Plymouth county and rented a farm west of Remsen, where he made his home for seven years, at the end of which time he bought a tract of eighty acres, to which he later added an adjoining tract of forty acres and has since then made his home on that place, he and his family being very comfortably situated there. In addition to his own farm of one hundred and twenty acres, Mr. Baune rents an adjoining tact of one hundred and twenty acres and is conducting his farming operations along progressive and up-to-date lines and is doing very well.

In 1890 Henry Baune was united in marriage to Elizabeth Schultz, daughter of Henry Schultz and wife, and to this union nine children have been born, six of whom are now living, namely; Edward, who married Anna Fredericks, and Aloysius, Lawrence, Raymond, Gregory and Clarence. The Baunes are members of the Catholic church at Remsen and take an earnest interest in parish affairs, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they live, and are helpful factors in furthering all good causes in that part of the county. Mr. Baune is a Democrat and gives a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office.

BOOK SOURCE:
History of Plymouth County, Iowa
Indianapolis, Ind.: B. F. Bowen, 1917