August Doble

DOBLE

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/3/2006 at 11:36:16

August Doble, carpenter and farmer, is located on section 30, Lincoln township. He came to Worth county in 1878. He was born in Holstein, Germany, Oct. 5, 1854. He came to America in 1857. He went first to Davenport, Iowa. After remaining five months he went to Benton Co., Iowa., where he lived twenty years. He learned his trade there, in Shellsburg. On Jan. 1, 1878, he married Amelia Ellgin. She was born in Saxony, Germany, March, 1855. They have no children. He has a good farm of seventy-seven acres. He farms in connection with his trade. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Shellburg Lodge, No. 171.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 797.