DANIEL EHRESMAN

For more than a half century Daniel Ehresman was identified with the farming interest of Cedar county, and during that period his efforts were in harmony with the spirit of progress which has ever been manifest in agricultural lines here. He was of German origin, his birth occurring in Rheinberg, Germany, on the 24th of July, 1830. He was reared to manhood in his native country and there acquired his education. Upon attaining manhood he decided to seek his fortune in the new world, where the opportunity for business advancement was said to be greater than that offered in the old world. Accordingly he came to the United States in 1855, landing in New York, where he tarried for a period of two years. He then made his way west, spending one summer in Illinois, after which he came to Cedar county, arriving here in 1858, and has since made this his home.

His entire time and attention were devoted to agricultural pursuits, in which he was most successful, the prosperity which was his being the result of well directed effort and intelligently applied labor. He was the owner of a fine farm of two hundred acres located on sections 26 and 27, Cass township, which is a well improved property, equipped with all modern accessories for facilitating farm labor, and is now in charge of his son-in-law.

On the 7th of September, 1858, Mr. Ehresman was married in Muscatine, Iowa, to Miss Magdalena Miller, who was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837. She is a daughter of Thomas and Mollie (Brown) Miller, also natives of the Keystone state, and by her marriage to Mr. Ehresman became the mother of twelve children, ten sons and two daughters, as follows: Henry, Jacob and William, all residing in Nebraska; John, of Garfield county, Nebraska; Daniel , living in Texas; Charles, of Lisbon, Iowa; Alexander, residing in Cass township; Edward, who passed away at the age of twenty-four years; Joseph, who died in infancy; Frank, also deceased; Lizzie the wife of Henry S. Brown of Cass township; and Mary, the wife of Frank Achey.

Throughout the many years of his residence in Cedar county Mr. Ehresman was interested in the growth and development of the community in which he made his home, his influence and activity being always on the side of progress, reform, improvement and advancement. He was well known throughout the county and was held in high esteem and regard by a large circle of warm friends. After a useful and well spent life he passed away June 19, 1910.