Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 747
JOHN J. ANDERSON

John J. ANDERSON, an enterprising farmer of section 6, in Cass Township, has been a resident of Harrison County since the spring of 1881, and will form the subject of this notice. He is a native of Germany, born May 4, 1855. He remained in the Fatherland until 1865, and then came to America, in company with his mother. His father was Henry ANDERSON, born in Germany, in 1822 and died April 5, 1857. From New York harbor, they came by rail to Clinton County, Iowa. In his father's family, there were the following children; Lizzie, August, Peter W., Dora C., John J. and Mary. Lizzie died November 7, 1870 and Dora C., September 7, 1878.

After coming to Clinton County, our subject worked as a farm laborer by the month. He was ten years old at the time he came, and worked summers on the farm, and attended school winters, working for his board. After three years in that vicinity, he went to Scott County, Iowa, where he remained until he remained until he was eighteen years old, and then went to Pottawattamie County, and worked by the month five or six years, and then bought eighty acres of improved land. He purchased it with the crops on the ground, and paid $20 per acre, and after removing the crop, he sold it for the same price, and then moved to his present place.

He was married May 4, 1882, to Sophia KLOPPING, the daughter of August and Annie KLOPPING, who were the parents of ten children, of whom our subject's wife was the oldest; Sophia C., Henry F., deceased; Carl W., Edward, deceased; Adolph L., Annie M., Emma A., Louis L., August P. and Louise, deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. ANDERSON are the parents of four children--- Louisa, born February 28,1883; Anna A., April 15, 1884; Emma M., November 7, 1886; Dora, December 29, 1890. Three of these children are living.

When Mr. ANDERSON bought his present farm, it was wild land, consisting of one hundred and sixty-seven acres, for which he paid $12.50 per acre. He grubbed and broke out about eighty acres; built a comfortable house, set out an orchard of one hundred trees, together with a large amount of small fruit. He also has good outbuildings and a Halliday wind-mill. In order to secure this place, our subject was obliged to go in debt, $1,200, but being of an industrious turn of mind, and practicing economy on every had, he is now in possession of a comfortable and valuable home.

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