Mulder, Ed 1888 and Ida Borgman - Family History

MULDER, BORGMAN, VANDERAARDE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 8/4/2021 at 09:48:13

Mulder, Ed 1888 and Ida Borgman - Family History

This story was taken from the Sioux Center Centennial Book of 1991 page 457, and submitted to the book by Alvin Gerrit Mulder. The story was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw, and some research notes were added by Wilma J. Vande Berg; both of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society of Sioux Center Iowa.

Alvin’s paternal ancestry is recorded as far back as 1720 to a man named “Wiltje” who lived in Friesland, a province in the extreme northern part of the Netherlands. He had no surname and during the Napoleonic era everyone was required to have a surname for identification. He was a miller by trade and in the Frisian vernacular this was pronounced “Moulder”. The ‘o’ was later dropped and it has been “Mulder” ever since. One of the above named man’s great-great-grandsons was ‘Yge’ Mulder who was born in 1827 in ‘Dongjum’, Friesland was married to Riemke Hibma. She died at the age of 33 leaving him a widower with six sons and a daughter. Just prior to the turn of the century there was a severe depression in Europe and after debating for nearly two years he decided to go to America instead of South Africa where many others were going to make their home.

In the Mulder tradition vocations varied. There were millers, tradesmen, carpenters, farmers — Dairy men who specialized in the raising of Holstein Frisian Dairy cattle. The above mentioned Yge Mulder was a Dairy farmer and was called “Yge Boer.”

Many from other provinces in the Netherlands also migrated to the United States at that same time and settled in Sioux County.

In about 1878, the ‘Yge’ Mulder family came to LeMars by train and then by wagon to the newly established community of Orange City, and homesteaded southwest of town, a mile west and a half mile north of Carnes. At this same time the Jan Hoekstra family also from Friesland settled near Orange City. Three of the Mulder boys eventually married three of the Hoekstra sisters.

Alvin’s grandparents were Gerrit Mulder born April 12, 1863 and Geertje Hoekstra born December 17, 1861, who were married June 8, 1887. Their oldest son Yge (Ed) Mulder born March 17, 1888 grew to manhood on a farm southwest of Orange City, which his parents purchased in about 1889.

Also coming to the Orange City area by way of Grand Rapids, Michigan was Jacob Borgman of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. He eventually married Effie Vander Aarde the daughter of Bastiaan Vander Aarde, a pioneer family of the community. One of their daughters, Ida Agnes Borgman was born September 27, 1887.

On February 10, 1910, Yge (Ed) Mulder married Ida Agnes Borgman and settled on a 240 acre farm 4¼ miles west of old town Sioux Center, which Ida’s father Jacob Borgman had purchased.

During the summer of 1910 they lived in a granary while a new house was built. One evening after dark when Mrs. Mulder threw out the dishwater the sky became a blaze of light from Halley’s comet which was visible in the United States in September 1910.

Submitted to the book by Alvin Gerrit Mulder

RESEARCH NOTES by Wilma J. Vande Berg

OBITUARY of Ed Mulder 1888-1981
Hawarden Independent of Jun 4, 1981 page 4
Ed Mulder, 93, of Ireton, died Tuesday, May 27, in a hospital at Orange City. Services were at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the First Reformed church at Ireton. Rev. Robert G. Schwander officiated. Burial was in West Lawn cemetery at Orange City. Family visitation was from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Van Etten-Oolman funeral home at Orange City.
Mr. Mulder was born March 17, 1888, at rural Orange City. He married Ida Borgman Feb. 10, 1910, at Orange City. She died Dec. 21, 1976. He farmed in the Sioux Center, Hawarden and Ireton areas, and retired to Ireton in 1955. He became a resident of the Heritage House in Orange City in August of 1977. Mr. Mulder was a member of the First Reformed church. Survivors are four sons, Alvin of Orange City, Ben of Pella, Irwin of Ireton and Curtis of Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Mrs. Jake (Geneva) Kramer of Sioux City, Miss Edna of Ireton and Mrs. Chris (Ila) Schiebout of Orange City; 50 grandchildren, 87 great-grandchildren and 3 great great- grandchildren; and two sisters, Gertrude Douma of Sioux Center and Martha Ver Meer of Boyden.
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Source: Funeral folder from Van Etten-Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City, Iowa.
Ed was born southwest of Orange City, the son of Gerrit Mulder and Gertrude Hoekstra Mulder.....he married Ida Agnes Borgman...Ed was a member of the First Reformed Church of Ireton. In earlier years, Mr. and Mrs. Mulder were both active members of the church....In addition to his wife, Mr. Mulder was preceded in death by three sons, Clarence, Lawrence, and William Benjamin; 3 grandsons, 5 brothers, and 2 sisters.

OBITUARY of Ida Borgman Mrs. Ed Mulder 1887-1976
Ireton-Mrs. Ed Mulder, 89, of Ireton, died Dec. 21 in a Sioux
City hospital.
Services were held at 10 A.M., Dec. 24 in the First Reformed Church at Ireton. The Rev. Phillip Frens officiated. Burial was in West Lawn Cemetery at Orange City, with the Van Etten Funeral Home of Orange City in charge.
Mrs. Mulder, the former Ida Borgman, was born Sept. 27, 1887 in Orange City. She was married Feb. 10, 1910 in Orange City. The couple farmed in Sioux County, and retired to Ireton a few years ago.
Survivors include the widower; four sons, Alvin of Sioux Center, Ben of Pella, Irwin of Ireton and Curtis of Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Mrs. Jake (Geneva) Kramer and Miss Edna, both of Ireton and Mrs. Chris (Ila) Schiebout of Orange City; 54 grandchildren, and 61 great grandchildren; a brother, Ed of Sibley, and two sisters, Mrs. George (Agnes) Vander Brake and Mrs. Ben (Mary) Te Grotenhuis, both of Orange City.
Source: Sioux Center News, December 28, 1976

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