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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah September 20, 2020

L. Huendling, a well known representative of the Presbyterian ministry in Carroll county, has since 1883 served continuously as pastor of the German Presbyterian church in Wheatland township. For the past three decades he has also been identified with journalistic interests as the publisher of the paper called Ostfriesische Nachrichten. His birth occurred in Holte, Ostfriesland, province of Hanover, Germany, on the 31st of March, 1854, his parents being George and Dena (Hessenius) Huendling. Two of the ancestors of our subject, father and son, served in the ministry of the Reformed church in Germany, officiating as ministers of the same church in the same town for a period of one hundred and five consecutive years, or from 1650 to 1755.

L. Huendling obtained his early education in the public schools of the fatherland and in 1876 was graduated from the German Presbyterian College of Dubuque, Iowa. Three years later he was graduated from the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, Illinois. From 1879 until 1881 he served as pastor of the German Presbyterian church in Wheatland township, Carroll county, Iowa, and during the following two years acted as an instructor in the German Presbyterian College at Dubuque. He then returned to the pastorate of the German Presbyterian church in Wheatland township and has there remained in charge continuously since, his labors proving a potent force in the moral development of the community. In 1881 he began the publication of a German newspaper, the Ostfriesische Nachrichten, published in the interests of Germans from Ostfriesland, a district of the province of Hanover. He has edited the paper for thirty years and during that period its circulation has steadily grown until it now reaches over seven thousand subscribers.

On the 7th of July, 1880, at Oostburg, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, Rev. Huendling was united in marriage to Nellie Daane, a daughter of Hon. Peter and Susanna (Ernisse) Daane. Her father was an officer in the United States army during the Civil war, serving from 1862 until 1865. He likewise represented Sheboygan county in the Wisconsin legislature. In the maternal line Mrs. Huendling is a descendant of a Huguenot family, named Clicquenot, which fled from France to Holland in the times of religious persecution. Rev. and Mrs. Huendling were the parents of the following children: George Peter, who wedded Miss Helen Eby; Susanna, who gave her hand in marriage to James Wykhuis; Peter Jacobus, who wedded Miss Helen Meyer; Herman William; Nellie; Dena Regina; and Dena Nellie, who was born on the 12th of April, 1895, and passed away on the 3d of September, 1898.

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