Gengler, Nicholas 1842-1927

GENGLER

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Date: 3/27/2012 at 14:22:01

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
February 25, 1927

HELPED BUILD FIRST STATION
NICHOLAS GENGLER CAME TO PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN THE SIXTIES

Nicholas Gengler, one of the early settlers in LeMars, died Tuesday,
February 15, at his home in Rhodes, Iowa, at the age of 84 years and three
months. Mr. Gengler was a native of the grand duchy of Luxemburg, Europe,
where he was born at Kirsch and grew to young manhood. When a youth of
twenty, he came to America and settled in eastern Iowa. He was employed on
a steamboat on the Mississippi river for several years. From eastern Iowa
he came to Sioux City and located in Plymouth County in the late sixties.

Mr. Gengler helped to build the first railroad depot in the town of LeMars.
He homesteaded land on section 36 in Johnson township and engaged in
farming. Leaving the farm he conducted the Commericial House hotel in
Merrill for some time.

He moved to Arkansas in 1900 where he remained two or three years and then
moved to Rhodes, where he made his home of late years.

He is survived by his wife and three sons who are: John Gengler, of
Stuttgart, Ark.; Nicholas Gengler of Rhodes, Iowa; and P. J. Gengler, of
LeMars.

The funeral was held Friday at Rhodes and interment made in that place.

His death was due to an attack of pneumonia and his son, Nicholas, is
seriously ill with the same malady.