Brandes, H. C.

BRANDES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/19/2008 at 16:09:34

H. C. Brandes

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.118, James Twp.)
H. C. Brandes, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in Germany April 14, 1852, son of H. C. and Dorothea (Katz) Brandes, both natives of Germany, he born in 1813, and died in the place of his birth in 1858; she born in 1813, and is still living in her native country. They had four children - one son and three daughters. Our subject received his education in Germany, and began life as a farmer. He came to the United States in 1869, and locatetd in la Salle County, Ill., where he lived until 1877. He then came to James Township, where he had purchased 160 acres of land at $8 per acre in 1874. He built on this place, and otherwise improved it. In 1879, he bought 120 acres at $12.40 per cre, and in 1880 added eighty acres at $15.50 per acre, which with eight acres at $15 per acre which he purchased in 1882, gives him a good farm of 440 acres, which contains good buildings and other improvements. He engages in general farming, and feeds stock in the winter. he was married, in Forest, Livingston Co., Ill., March 11, 1874, to Magdalena Miller, born in La Salle County, Ill., December 3, 1857, daughter of Nicholas and Katharina Miller, he born in Alsace, Germany, January 28, 1829; she in Boston, Mass., June 29, 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Brandes have four children - George Henry, born February 12, 1876; Walter E., born December 28, 1878; Celia M., born January 11, 1880; and Ada Josephine, born February 15, 1882. Our subject has filled several township offices, and is now a Township Trustee for a second timer. He is a member of the German Evangelical Association and in politics is a Republican.