FRED PFAFF

Among the younger generation of farmers of Cedar county who are proving by the results which attend their efforts that their choice of a life work has been a wise one, is numbered Fred Pfaff, well known in this locality as a successful young farmer and stock-raiser. His entire life has been spent within the borders of Cedar county, where, in Cass township, his birth occurred on the 18th of July, 1880. He is the only living child of Charles and Clara (Dodds) Pfaff, residents of Tipton.

In the country schools near his home Fred Pfaff acquired a good education, and was not lacking in that practical training which comes from experience, for at an early age he began assisting his father in the work of the home farm and early learned lessons concerning the value of industry, perseverance and integrity. When still young he began farming on his own account and has since devoted his time and attention to agricultural pursuits, in which he has been most successful. Upon the retirement of his father he took charge of the farm of four hundred and twenty acres. Here he carries on general farming and stock-raising, and in both branches of his business he is meeting with gratifying success, for he is careful and wise in the management of his affairs, earnest in his work and is possessed of that laudable ambition to succeed which is usually the motive power of the energetic and progressive young man of today.

In December, 1904, Mr. Pfaff was united in marriage to Miss Harriett Kennedy, a native of Springville, Iowa, where her birth occurred on the 3d of February, 1882, her father being James Kennedy, now deceased. One son, Charles K., has blessed this union, andhe is the light and life of the household. Having spent his entire life in the neighborhood in which he now resides, Mr. Pfaff has become widely known throughout the community, and the fact that many of his best friends are those who have known him from childhood is an indication that his salient characteristics are those which inspire respect, confidence and good will in his fellow citizens.