Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 667
HENRY B. KLING

Henry B. KLING, of the firm of MATTHEWS & KLING, agricultural implement dealers at Woodbine, came to Harrison County, in August 1877, from Stoughton, Wis. When he and Mr. MATTHEWS embarked in business on the site of their present place of business, in a building that had been erected in 1866-7; they occupied that building until 1888, when they erected their large two-story brick warehouse which is 40x65 feet with a basement beneath. The second floor of this building is used for an Opera House, with a seating capacity of three hundred. The building is said to be one of the best of the kind in the county.

The business of this firm is dealing in all kinds of agricultural implements, buggies, lumber, grain and coal.

Mr. KLING was born in Walworth County, Wis., May 23, 1845. His father, Jacob R. KLING, was a farmer, who married Emily (BLISS) KLING the mother of our subject. Henry attended the Academy at the village of Milton, remaining at home until he was twenty-two years of age and then went to Milwaukee, and worked at various things for a year, after which he went to Stoughton and engaged in the broom business in company with his present partner which business he followed until coming to Harrison County.

He was married April 11, 1871 to Flora E. ALLEN, a native of Wisconsin, who is not the mother of two children, Bessie E., and Hurbert.

Mr. KLING is a member of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 405 at Woodbine.

Politically he casts his vote with the Republican party.

By a life of industry, and legitimate business operations Mr. KLING has surrounded himself with the comforts of life and is today in the possion of a comfortable home and a good business.

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