PLAMBECK, H.C.

PLAMBECK, FRASER

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 15:40:48

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 813

PLAMBECK, H.C.--Farmer, section 34, P.O. Victor. Was born September 11, 1853, in Holstein, Germany; there attended school till fifteen years old, when he was admitted as a cadet in Berlin, where he graduated September, 1870, then served in the German army during the Franco-Prussian War till March 5, 1873; the same year he left Germany for America, crossing the Atlantic in the steamer Thuringia, then on her second voyage, and landed in New York, March 19, after a stormy voyage, then came to Davenport, Iowa, and engaged to work on a farm in Scott county summers and taught school winters till the spring of 1875, when he married Miss Annie Fraser, who was born there in 1856. They now have three children: Theodora (born January 23, 1876), Adolph (born November 5, 1877) and Maxwell (born August 9, 1879). Mr. Plambeck and wife came to this county April 28, 1875, and settled where they now live and own eighty acres of good land, with good brick residence on the same.