Thomas Northwick

NORTHWICK ERICKSON HOVELAND

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/23/2010 at 16:19:33

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Thomas Northwick Family
By Ilo (Northwick) Binnebose

Thomas Oliver Northwick, nicknamed ‘Ole’, whose ancestry on his mother’s side is traced back to 1660 to a Torris Nilsen Borgum and Tora Pedersdtr Kvam from Aurland Sogn Norway, was born January 9, 1894, in Fairbault County, Minnesota.

His mother was one of nineteen children born to Ole Erickson and Gertrude (Hoveland) Erickson on July 10, 1869, in Frost, Minnesota. She was named Olena. She married Thomas S Northwick in 1888, and lived to be 92.

His father was Thomas S Northwick a well known carpenter in the Blue Earth, Minnesota, area. Ole’s father was the son of Stur T Northwick and Kristi Elendson Northwick, both from Norway, who migrated to Fairbault, Minnesota to farm.

In 1913 Ole left Blue Earth to a job in a flour mill in Davenport, Iowa, owned by the International Milling Company. His best friend, Glenn Kintzle, who also worked for this company, wanted Ole to meet his pretty sister, Vivian. She was still living at home in Muscatine, Iowa, about 30 miles from Davenport, so one week-end they sojourned to Muscatine.

The Kintzles were in the process of building a new home at 615 Oak Street, and at the time were living in their barn. This was an embarrassing situation for Vivian who fell in love with Ole at first sight. Ole also fell hard for Vivian.

Vivian Kintzle was born March 9, 1895, in Muscatine, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Kintzle, son of Israel Kintzle and Sarah (Manley) Kintzle born in January of 1870. Israel had been a soldier in the 35th G.A.R. and resided in Bloomington, township, Iowa. Vivian’s mother was Grace (Bowlby) Kintzle, daughter of Jefferson Bowlby.

Vivian and Ole had a frustrating courtship, being 30 miles apart. In those days that was quite a trip.

At last the Kintzles had completed their home and the wedding took place in January 1915. The newlyweds made their home in Davenport which at that time was a thriving town on the Mississippi River.

A daughter, Gracella, was born the following October and another daughter, Ilo, was born February 1, 1920.

In 1924 Ole was promoted and transferred to Wells, Minnesota. He was a ‘head miller’, now, and prospering. They bought a new Maxwell car that year. In 1928, Ole was transferred back to his home town of Blue Earth, Minnesota, to a larger mill. From there the family moved to Davenport, Iowa again, and another promotion for Ole. The Northwick family moved again to Woodbury County in the year 1930, where Ole was head miller for the Robin Hood Mil. This mill had been the former Mystic Mill, located in Leeds, Iowa, a suburb of Sioux City, Iowa.

Sioux City was known as a wild town and Vivian and Ole thought little Leeds would be a more ‘quiet’ place to raise two innocent daughters.

Gracella attended Central High School and Ilo went to Woodrow Wilson in Sioux City. Ilo graduated from Central High in June 1937.

Ole had all he could do to keep the boys away from his two very popular daughters, but it came to pass that Gracella married Roy Barr, son of Hughe Barr of Leeds, and Elizabeth Olson Barr, also living in Leeds. Grace and Roy had three children, two sons, Thomas and Keith, and a daughter, Patricia.

Ilo married Carol O Binnebose on December 30, 1937. Carl was the son of Herman A Binnebose and Marie Toeppe Binnebose, long time residents of Woodbury County. They live on an acreage near Leeds, Fair-acres addition.

Carl and Ilo had a son, Marlin, and two daughters, Mardee, who weighed only two pounds at birth, and Sheila.

Mardee married Leo Carlberg, son of Al and Julia Carlberg, and had three children, Teresa, Leo, Jr, and Sharon.

Marlin married Susan K Smith, daughter of Arthur and Susan Harder Smith. They had two daughters, Renae and Rochelle.

Carl Binnebose died in 1966 and Ilo later married Carl’s older brother, Herman J Binnebose in 1969. They lived at 4429 Springfield Street in Leeds.