Rudolph W. Fett
Rudolph W. Fett holds place as
one ot the enterprising and representative merchants in
the village of Luana and has been a resident of Iowa
since his boyhood days, his parents having been pioneers
of this State.
He was born in the Prussian Province of Pommern,
designated in English as Pomerania, and the date of his
nativity was April 6, 1866. In the same province were
born and reared his parents, Frederick and Henriette
(Schrader) Fett, and there they continued their residence
until 1875, when they immigrated to America and soon
afterward established the family home in Allamakee
county, Iowa. There Frederick Fett reclaimed and
developed a fine farm and he continued to be actively
identified with agricultural pursuits in that county for
many years. He and his wife are now venerable and honored
pioneer citizens of Allamakee county, where he is living
retired, in the enjoyment of the gracious rewards of
former years of earnest and well directed endeavor.
Their eldest child, Charles, continues to uphold the
prestige of the family name in connection with
agricultural industry in Allamakee county; Augusta is the
wife of August Duball, of that county; Fred still remains
a representative of agricultural interests in the same
county; and the subject of this review is the youngest of
the children.
Rudolph W. Fett was a lad of about seventeen years at the
time of the family immigration to the United States, and
thus he had received in his native land his rudimentary
education, which was supplemented by the discipline which
he gained in the schools of Allamakee county, Iowa. He
assisted in the work of the home farm and later found
employment on other farms in Allamakee county. In 1894 he
came to Clayton county and founded a general merchandise
business at Watson, in which village he continued his
operations in this line until the autumn of 1915, when he
removed to Luana and purchased the general merchandise
stock of Eleazer Schinholtz. He maintains his store at a
high standard in the variety and completeness of its
stock in all departments, and in the effective service
given in meeting the demands of a substantial and
appreciative patronage. He is one of the progressive and
valued business men of this fine little city and has a
wide circle of friends in Clayton county.
Mr. Fett is a staunch Republican and within the period of
his residence at Watson he served 15 years as postmaster
of that village. Both he and his wife are earnest members
of the Methodist Episcopal church at Luana. On the 5th of
March, 1891, Mr. Fett wedded Miss Lena Krueger, who was
born and reared in Allamakee county, and their five
children all remain members of the gracious home circle,
namely: Donald, Gladys, Murney, Carlisle, and Maicil.
source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical Times Down to
the Present; by Realto E. Price, Vol. II; pg 118
-submitted by S. Ferrall
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