Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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HENRY HANNEMAN JR.

Henry HANNEMAN Jr., of Calhoun Township, a farmer residing on section 16, of this same township, has been a resident of Harrison County since the month of October, 1855, his father settling in Magnolia Township at that time, and is still a resident there. Henry was born January 23, 1855, in Indianapolis, Ind., and was but a mere babe when his parents emigrated to Harrison County, and thus truly it may be said, "he had grown up with the country." When his father, Henry HANNEMAN, Sr., came to the county it was very wild and new, Council Bluffs being their nearest mail and market point, and prices were not in keeping with the present day quotations; for our subject relates now that upon one occasion his father took a load of corn to Council Bluffs and brought back a bushel of salt. Game was very plenty, and our subject well remembers after he was quite a lad, of seeing elk and deer. He attended the district schools, common to Harrison County at an early day, which were held in log houses, and he relates how that he, with the other scholars, saw the soldiers, who were going South to put down the Civil War, march proudly by the old log school house.

Henry assisted on the old homestead, and remained under the paternal roof until twenty-two years of age, when he was married and commenced farming on his own account upon land owned by his father. In April, 1881, he purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which there had been some improvements made, but without buildings. He moved to this place in the summer of 1883 a house from off his father's place, to which he made an addition, and the following fall moved to his new home. In the summer of 1889 he built a barn 34x40 feet, having sixteen�foot posts. He generally keeps about thirty head of cattle, and a corresponding number of swine, farming a part of his own and a part of his father's land.

He was united in marriage November 27, 1877, to Theresa SCHUELZKY, a native of Prussia, born February 19, 1856, and the daughter of Frederick and Mary SCHUELZKY, who is the fourth child of a family of seven children, six of whom grew to their majority. Her people came to America in the spring of 1869, landing in New York, and from there came to Franklin County, Iowa, where her father farmed until the winter of 1887, and then went to Thayer County, Neb., where his wife died October 11, 1889, and December 2 of the same year their youngest daughter, Anna M., closed her eyes to earthly scenes. Her older sister, who was married and living at Davenport, Neb., died September 8, 1889. The father came to Harrison County, and died April 8, 1890.

Mr. and Mrs. HANNEMAN are the parents of six children, all living at this time�Mary M., born September 29, 1878; Anna Catherine, born May 15, 1881; John Henry, born March 21, 1883; Charles F., born February 28, 1885; William Homer, born March 15, 1887, and Theresa Henrietta, born May 20, 1889.

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