Grone, John F.

GRONE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/22/2008 at 14:00:15

John F. Grone

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.213, Pleasant Twp.)
John F. Grone, farmer, P. O. Minden, is a native of Bremen, Germany, born October 14, 1823, only son of John F. and Christina (Augustine) Grone, natives of Hanover, Germany; he, a tailor by trade, born December 29, 1797, went, in 1836, to New York City, where he died July 18, 1845; his wife died in her native country. Subject received his German education in his native city, and was educated in the English language in Duane Street School in New York City, to which city he came in 1837. He worked at the tailor's trade in New York, and, in 1847, moved to Wisconsin, where he followed farming, and where he was a township officer for twenty-five years. In 1873, he came to this township (Pleasant) bought 136 acres of land at $8 per acre, and the same day bought another tract of 136 acres at $9 per acre, which latter tract he sold in 1878 at $16 per acre. He has improved the first 136 acres; has set out an orchard of 106 trees and has a three-acre grove. He keeps Berkshire hogs and raises good stock generally. Mr. Grone has been twice married. In New York, March 4, 1844, he married Johanne K. Albertus, who died August 31, 1847, and in Honey Creek, Sauk Co., Wis., December 26, 1849, he married Wilhelmina Albertus, born in Germany Augsut 11, 1834. Mrs. Grone is a daughter of Carl H. and Christiana (Becker) Albertus, natives of Germany; he born May 16, 1801, she born May 14, 1799. Mr. Grone has nine children - Johanna Carolina, Christina Augustina, John F., Carolina, Mary M., Arthur N., Wilhelm H., George W. and Franz Joseph. He is a member of the German Evangelical Association; he votes the Republican ticket.