GYSBERT VAN HOUWELINGEN

Born January 2, 1813, at Niewland, Netherlands. His wife, Margie Kappetyn van
Houwelingen, was born at Binschap, Netherlands, March ti, 1813. Mr. and Mrs. van
Houwelingen came to America on the ship Maastrom in 1847 and arrived in this
place in the fall of that year. Mr. van Houwelingen started the first dairy and
butcher shop that Pella ever had and conducted the business for the first eight
years. In the fall of 1853 they moved onto a farm southwest of town, where they
remained until Mr. van Houwelingen died, on November 12, 1874.

GYSRERT VAN HOUWELINGEN

CHARLES RENAUD

Was born in France, December 29, 1825. With others of the Renaud family he came
to America and settled near Pella in 1860. Those who knew him during the years
that he lived in this vicinity remember him as a man of warm heart and generous
impulses, a good neighbor who was always ready and willing to help in time of
need, and his death was recognized as a great loss to the community. He died
March 1, 1908.

CHARLES RENAUD

GEHRIT NOLLEN

GERRIT NOLLEN

Was born in Diedam, Province of Gelderland, Holland, March 6, 1830. In 1854 he
came to Pella with his parents and after a year in town the family moved to the
farm. He lived in Pella until the beginning of the Civil war, when he took up
his residence in Keokuk, then one of the leading cities of Iowa. Here he
followed his chosen profession of landscape and portrait artist. Later he came
back to Pella and engaged in the same line of work. In 1873 he was united in
marriage to Miss Gertrude Kramer. He was an artist of unusual ability and in
addition to doing art work he taught a number of pupils. He was a man of earnest
religious convictions and blameless life. He died in Pella on the 1st day of
April, 1901.