Lage, Jochim

LAGE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/23/2008 at 13:22:18

Jochim Lage

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.215, Pleasant Twp.)
Jochim Lage, farmer, P. O. Shelby, Shelby County, was born in April, 1842, in Schonberg, Holstein, Germany, where also his parents, A. and Katharina (Horst) Lage, were born and there they died. A. Lage was born in 1816, and died September 9, 1878; his wife died in 1844. They had five children - four boys and one girl. Subject received his education at Schonberg and Goorden, near Kiel, Holstein, Germany, and was a Government forester for nine years. In 1869, he left his native country and came to America, landing at New York; thence he came to Davenport, Iowa, where he followed farming till 1872; then moved to Benton County, Iowa, remained there a year; then went to Shelby County, Iowa. After remaining in Shelby County one year, he came to Pleasant Township in 1876, and in 1879, bought eighty acres of land there at $12.50 per acre. The place is improved and there is a fine grove of trees around the house. Mr. Lage carries on general farming. At Davenport, Iowa, February 14, 1877, he married Bertha K. Wiese, born November 6, 1857, daughter of Peter and Bertha (Stoltenberg) Wiese, natives of Germany. By this union they have two children - Mina Ottelle, born March 14, 1879, and Peter Altred, born July 26, 1880. Peter Wiese, Mrs. Lage's father was born in Schonberg-Holstein, Germany in 1826, and served as Sergeant during the Schleswig-Holstein war of 1848-51, participating in the battles of Duppler and Friederichstadt. Mr. Lage has always been a Republican.