Stahl, Jacob

STAHL, STERLING

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/23/2012 at 07:34:49

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

STAHL, JACOB—Bear Creek Twp—pg 850. Farmer, section 5, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Germany, in 1835, and was there educated and raised to manhood. His occupation in youth was that of a shepherd. He came to the United States in 1853 and made his first settlement in Newark, New Jersey, where he followed the pursuit of agriculture for about two years, he then moved to Bureau county, Illinois, where he resided until the spring of 1869, when he moved to his present location. He was married in Bureau county, in 1862, to Miss Jane Sterling, of that county; their family consists of three children living: Frank, William and Mertie; they lost four in childhood. Mr. Stahl owns a nice farm of 160 acres of well cultivated land with first-class improvements. He is deserving the esteem in which he is held by his neighbors.