Bringolf, Samuel

BRINGOLF

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/20/2008 at 13:54:15

Samuel Bringolf

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.208, Pleasant Twp.)
Samuel Bringolf, farmer, P. O. Shelby, was born in Jasper County, Mo., August 1, 1846; son of A. and Mahala (Mann) Bringolf, who were the parents of ten children, six boys and four girls. His parents are now residing in Polk County, Iowa. A. Bringolf, subject's father, a farmer and stock-dealer by occupation, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1810; his wife, a native of Indiana, was born in 1830. Subject left Missouri with his parents in 1855, after being one-half a year in Warren county, and came to Polk County, Iowa, where he received his education, and where he engaged in the stock business, and was also a merchant in Des Moines for one and a half years. In 1879, he moved to Shelby County, Iowa, where he had the previous year bought 160 acres of wild land at $9.50 per acre, and, after improving the land, setting out 1,000 shade trees and planting over 100 fruit trees, sold the place in November, 1881, at $35 per acre. He then bought his present place in Pleasant Township, consisting of 167 acres, for which he paid $40 per acre. On the place are a one and a half story frame house 16 x 30 feet, and a large barn 40 x 50 feet. Mr. Bringolf has devoted the greater part of his time to the stock business, but for the last five years has followed general farming. At Des Moines, Iowa, May 20, 1874, he married Caroline Woods, born in Ohio, September 17, 1855, daughter of H. M. and Lotta (Boyd) Woods, he born in Pennsylvania in 1820; she born in Maryland in 1822. By this union they have had three sons. Mr. Bringolf held several township offices while in Polk County, Iowa. He is a Democrat, and a member of the A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., I. O. L. and A. O. U W.