Klopping, August

KLOPPING

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/9/2008 at 16:25:57

August Klopping

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.203, Norwalk Twp.)
August Klopping, farmer, P. O. Downsville, was born in Prussia, Germany, July 20, 1835; he is the son of Frederick and Sophia (Lukermann) Klopping; his father was a farmer and was born in Prussia about 1807, and died in that country about 1862. His mother was born in Prussia in 1810; she came to this country from Prussia in 1881, being in her seventy-second year, and is still living. Our subject was educated in his native land, and worked at home until he was twenty-one years of age. In April, 1854, he came to the United States, arriving in New York in May of the same year. He went at once to Freeport, Ill., where he lived for one year. He then came to Council Bluffs, where he worked as teamster for about two years. He was married, in Council Bluffs, November 21, 1858, to Maria Hatcher, who was born in Prussia May 2, 1838; she is the daughter of Peter and Maria (Myers) Hatcher, both of whom were natives of Prussia and both died in that country. Mrs. Klopping came from the old country to New Orleans in 1856. From there she went to Quincy, Ill., and finally, to Council Bluffs in 1857. After his marriage, our subject farmed for four years in Shelby County, Iowa. He then went to Freeport, Ill., where he stayed nearly a year. he then lived one year in Jasper County, Iowa, after which he returned to this county. He rented land for two years, and in 1866 he purchased 120 acres of his present farm. He then went to the Bluffs, and teamed again for two years. In the spring of 1869, he returned to his farm, and by successive purchases now has 520 acres, over 300 of which are under cultivation, the balance being in grass and timber. His specialty is raising cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Klopping have had ten children, seven of whom are living - Sophia, born November 27, 1859; Henry F., December 6, 1861, died January 26, 1863; Karl, born December 15, 1863; Edward, February 21, 1866, died July 27, 1867; Adolph, born March 25, 1868; Anna M., July 17, 1870; Emma, September 12, 1872; Louis, March 3, 1875; August, March 6, 1877; Louisa, July 18, 1880, died May 18, 1881.