LOUIS F KUHN

Sole owner and proprietor of the Kuhn’s Bargain Store and an important factor in the commercial circles of Tipton, Louis F. Kuhn is one of Iowa’s native sons, his birth having occurred in Franklin, Lee county, in September, 1869. He is the only child of Frank and Sophia (Kipp) Kuhn, the former a native of Saxony, Germany, and the latter of Hanover. Both became residents of Iowa in their childhood days and Mr. Kuhn established his home in Lee county but died in Missouri while temporarily absent from home. His widow stillsurvives and lives in Lee county.

Louis F. Kuhn was reared in Franklin and the public schools afforded him his educational privileges. Inearly life he began clerking and spent six years in a general store. He afterward went to Creston, Iowa, where he engaged in clerking for six and one-half years and in 1899 came to Tipton, where he started in business on his own account, purchasing the grocery store formerly owned by C. Shawver. Gradually he has converted it into a general store. After a year he removed to his present location at No. 410 Cedar street, where he occupies a building one hundred and twenty feet in length and two stories in height, using the entire structure for his mercantile purposes. He carries a large and well selected line of goods and the store is popular with the trading public, a liberal patronage being accorded him.

In 1893 Mr. Kuhn was married in Creston to Miss Carrie Blaufuss, who was born in Lee county, Iowa, February 24, 1872, and is a daughter of Fred and Caroline Blaufuss, who were natives of Germany, where they remained until after their marriage and then crossed the Atlantic to the new world. The father is now deceased but the mother is still living in Lee county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn have been born twin sons, Clarence and Clyde, who were born in Creston, November 5, 1895.

In politics Mr. Kuhn is an earnest republican and was first called to office to fill a vacancy in the city council. He was then elected and is now serving for the third year as one of the aldermen of Tipton, in which position he exercises his official prerogative in support of many progressive and reform movements. He is a member of Trinity Lutheran church, in which he is serving as deacon, and his interests center in those things which are for the welfare and benefit of the community and the individual. His record in business is a creditable one, for from the age of nine years he has made his own way in the world, his success being the result of determined effort and of unassailable commercial integrity.