Henry C. Baars Henry C. Baars is associated
with his next younger brother, Fritz, in the operation of
the fine old homestead farm, in Section 36 Highland
township, that figures as the place of their birth, and
they are known as progressive and energetic young
agriculturists and stock-growers of their native county,
with secure place in popular esteem. Henry C. Baars was
born on this farm on the 29th of August, 1888, and is a
son of Henry and Augusta (Adam) Baars, the former of whom
was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, and the latter in West
Prussia. Henry Baars was a young man when he came to the
United States, and in 1869 he came to Clayton county and
established his home in Cox Creek township. He later
removed to and improved one of the fine farms of Highland
township, and he and his wife now reside at Elkader, the
county seat, where he is living retired, after having won
substantial prosperity through his long and effective
association with farm industry. He is a Democrat in
politics, and hoe and his wife are earnest communicants
of the Lutheran church. Herman, the eldest of their seven
children, is a prosperous farmer in Sperry township;
Henry C. and Fritz, as already noted, are associated in
the operations oil the old home farm, which comprises two
hundred acres, and Fritz was here born on the 17th of
November, 1890; Albert died in childhood, as did also
Hilda; and Alfred and Carrie remain at the parental home.
Henry C. Baars is indebted to the public schools of his
native county for his early education, and he continued
to assist in the operation of the home farm until he was
twenty years old. He passed the following years in South
Dakota, then resumed his association with the work of the
home farm and one year later he and his brother Fritz
assumed the active control and management of the fine old
homestead, upon which they have since continued their
successful operations in diversified agriculture and the
raising of excellent live stock. The subject of this
review is serving as school director of his district, is
a Democrat in his political adherency and both he and his
wife hold membership in the Lutheran church. Mr. Baars is
married to Miss Katherine Kuehl, daughter of Joseph J.
Kuehl, of whom individual mention is made on other pages
of this work. source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical Times Down to
the Present; by Realto E. Price, Vol. II; pg. 27-28 |