Frank Turechek resides on section 14, Pleasant Valley Township, where he settled in the spring of 1881. He bought his place in 1880 of the Henry Zerbee heirs, it being at that time wholly unimproved. His land is in the exact center of the township, forty acres being in each quarter, thus making 160 acres. His residence and farm buildings are good, and he has an orchard of half an acre, and a good grove of forest trees. Mr. Turechek is a native of Bohemia, born in 1851, a son of Mathew and Barbara Turechek. In 1864 his parents with their six children came to the United States and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, until the spring of 1865, when they moved to Newport, Kentucky, and thence in 1866 to Johnson County, Iowa, where they still live. One child was born to them in America, and their whole family of five sons and two daughters are living, our subject being the eldest. He was married in Johnson County, Iowa, in 1875, to Mary Prochaska, who was born in that county in 1858, of Bohemian parentage. Her father is deceased and her mother now lives in Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Turechek have three children — Mary, Joseph and Edward. In politics Mr. Turechek is a Democrat.

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