Heesch, Jurgen

HEESCH

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/31/2008 at 13:47:00

Jurgen Heesch

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.232, Silver Creek Twp.)
Jurgen Heesch, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs. Mr. Jurgen Heesch was born in Germany in 1848, Holstein being his native State. He came to America in the fall of 1870, settling in Scott County, Iowa; was there about fifteen months, and then came to Mills County, where he remained one year, and then moved to Pottawattamie County, to his present farm. His parents both died in the old country; he was educated in his native land. Was married, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 12, 1873, to Miss Anne Schmielan; she was born in Germany also. They have four children, four girls. He is Republican in politics. His farm consists of 240 acres, 140 in cultivation, the remainder in pasture and meadow. He bought it when it was raw prairie, paying $10 for the first eighty and $15 per acre for the last 160. His farming is general corn-raising, and feeding to his stock his leading business. When he came to this country in 1870, he had about $700, and the remainder he has made in this country.