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Herman Braunns

Herman Braunns, for a third of a century a resident of Greene county, has since 1884 resided upon his present farm on section 9, Willow township, where he owns and cultivates eighty acres of land, but it is not alone his tilling of the soil that makes him a prosperous business man of the community, for as a stock raiser and breeder he is also meeting with success and is well known in this connection.

Mr. Braunns is a native of Germany, born in 1856. He spent the first thirteen years of his life in that country and was a student in the public schools from the age of six years. He then came to America in 1869 with his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schultz. Following their arrival in the new world the family resided for three years in Rock Island county, Illinois, and then came to Iowa, settling in Greene county, where Mr. Braunns has since made his home. He was reared to the occupation of farming and has made it his life work. He resided near Cooper from 1874 until 1884, when, having in the meantime attained his majority and saved some capital from his earnings, he came to Willow township and purchased eighty acres of land on section 9. This was his first property. The land had been broken, but Mr. Braunns has made all of the improvements upon the farm. He set out trees, which are now of goodly size, erected a comfortable residence and substantial barn, the latter being thirty-six by fifty-two feet. He has also fenced his land and thus divided it into fields of convenient size, and year by year he has tilled his soil, gathering rich crops as the summer sun has ripened his grain. He is methodical and systematic in his business, energetic and diligent in his work, and is therefore classed with the substantial farmers of the county.

Mr. Braunns is a member of the Lutheran church and is loyal to its teachings. He is guided in all that he does by high principles of manhood and of citizenship, and his life in its various phases and relations has been most honorable.

Transcribed from "Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead,"
by E. B. Stillman assisted by an Advisory Board consisting of Paul E. Stillman, Gillum S. Toliver,
Benjamin F. Osborn, Mahlon Head, P. A. Smith and Lee B. Kinsey, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

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