Heileman, William E. (1857-1904)

HEILEMAN

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Date: 5/8/2008 at 18:33:58

William E. Heileman
Aug 22, 1857 - Oct 21, 1904

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.96, Garner Twp.)
Wm. Heileman, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Germany in 1857; son of William and Wilhelmina (Marker) Heileman, living in Germany. Subject was educated in Germany, where he has five brothers, he being the only child in America. His father was in the army, but now has an office on a railroad. Our subject has always followed farming. He was married, April 16, 1879, to Miss Lucretia Stoker. They have one child, a little girl. Mr. Heileman came to this country when only fifteen years old, with an uncle, settling at Fort Dodge, Webster Co., Iowa, where he followed farming; he came to Pottawattamie County in April, 1877, and has been here since engaged in general farming. He is now farming Mrs. Stoker's farm, but owns one of eight acres in Minden Township, partly improved. Since coming to America at fifteen years of age, he has made his own way.

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.385)
WILLIAM HEILEMAN is one of the prominent and succcessful citizens of Garner Township, who came to Pottawattamie County, thirteen years ago, and has resided on his present farm ever since. He was born August 22, 1857, in Saxony, Germany, the son of William and Wilhelmina (MARKER) HEILEMAN, natives of Saxony. William attended school until fourteen years of age, and then commenced farm work. When Sixteen years of age he bade his father, mother, six brothers and one sister, good-bye, and came to this country with his uncle, Carl HEILEMAN, who settled in Webster County, Iowa. William afterward came to Humbolt County, where he worked at farming by the month and remained until the spring of 1877, when he came to Pottawattamie County. He purchased eighty acres of land in Minden Township, which he afterward sold and bought his present farm of Margaret STOKER. It was an old, cultivated farm, situated about four miles from the city limits, and consists of 243 acres, 120 acres being cultivated and the remainder in valuable timber and pasture lands. He has some four acres in vineyard, about two acres in blackberries and six acres in orchard. The farm is well adapted for fruit-growing or stock raising.
On the 16th of April he was married to Miss Lucretia STOKER, who was born on this homestead and the daughter of Eller and Margaret STOKER, early and well-known settlers of the township. Mr. and Mrs. HEILEMAN have two children: Ralph Earling and Minnie Politically MR. HEILEMAN is a Democrat and is a member of the Farmers' Protective Alliance of Garner Township. He is a man yet in the prime of life, frank, intelligent, and cordial in his manner.