Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

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

Henry HANNEMAN Sr., a farmer living on section 8, of Magnolia Township, (township 79, range 43) came to Harrison County in October, 1855, and settled on the farm he now lives upon, at first purchasing eighty acres, nine acres of which of had been broken. He built a log house 14x18 feet and lived in the same until about 1863, when he built a frame house 14x16 feet, one and a half stories high, to which he has made several additions and improvements. In 1873 he erected a barn 30x40 feet, and has added to his landed estate until he now has four hundred and forty acres, one hundred and fifty of which are under the plow, and the balance in meadow, pasture and timber land.

Our subject was born in Geinsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, March 27, 1827, and he remained in his native land until 1851, when he sailed for America, being twenty-eight days on the ocean; he came direct to Lancaster County, Pa. There he worked by the month on a farm until 1854, at which time he went to Indianapolis, Ind., where he was variously engaged until the autumn of 1855, when he came to Iowa.

Mr. HANNEMAN was married in Lancaster County, Pa., February 15, 1854, to Miss Mary HAUFF, and they are the parents of three children -- Henry, born January 23, 1855; Katie, October 18, 1856; and John, May 24, 1861.

Mary (HAUFF) HANNEMAN was also born in Geinsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, December 12,1823, and came to Lancaster County, Pa., in 1851, where she worked out until the date of her marriage.

Henry HANNEMAN, the father of our subject, was born in Germany, about 1790, at the same place in which his son was born, and died there January 1, 1849. The mother, Catherine (GEITH) HANNEMAN, was born at the same place in Germany, and remained there until her death. They were the parents of four children, our subject being the third child.

Mr. and Mrs. HANNEMAN are both acceptable members of the Evangelical Church at Magnolia and have belonged to that organization since 1861.

When our subject came from Germany he possessed only $40, and upon arriving in Harrison County, his sole possessions consisted of a team of horses. The country was very thinly inhabited, and their nearest trading point was Council Bluffs, and his children got most of their schooling at a school-house which stood near W. E. Cutler's, which was about one and three-quarter miles from Mr. HANNEMAN's house. L. D. Butler had a small mill near where Woodbine now stands. During the hard winter of 1856-57, the snow was so deep it was impossible to get around with horse-teams, so Mr. HENNEMAN got an ox-team for their keeping, and with them hauled his winter's wood up near his house early in the season, but it was soon drifted under so badly that it was easier to go to the timber and cut and haul more than it was to uncover it.

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