WM. VAN DER LINDEN

Born in Scravendaal, Netherlands, June 14, 1843. In 1847 he came with his
parents with the Holland Colony when a boy of four years of age. On June 9,
1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Jenneka Kolenbrander. They spent their
early life on a farm near Amsterdam, south of this city. In 1877 he moved his
family to Pella and engaged in business and was very successful in his new
calling. He was Secretary of the Board of Education for a number of years and
was, for several years a silent partner of F. W. Brinkhoff in the drug business.
In 1886 the firm dissolved partnership and he started in the book and stationery
business which he conducted until in later years he engaged in the banking
business, being one of the promoters of the Security Bank of this city, of which
he was made President, which position he held at the time of his death, on
November 11, 1903. He had been associated with the Second Reformed Church of
this city from the time of its organization and during his membership served in
the capacity of deacon and elder. He was the father of six sons and three
daughters, three of the sons having died in early infancy; three, John of Des
Moines; Marinus, of Pella, and Herman, of Leighton, survive him; also three
daughters, Miss Lizzie, Mrs. Jennie Schaalekamp, of Sioux Center, Iowa, and Mrs.
Minnie _____, of _____. [sic]

WM. VAN DER LINDEN

FREDERICK WILLIAM BRINKHOFF

Was born in Germany and when a boy of seventeen years he came to America, which
country he adopted as his future home. He located in Pella the night before
Abraham Lincoln was first elected as President of the United States. Upon his
arrival in this city he accepted a position with Esquire Graefe, who was at that
time engaged in the mercantile business. He worked for Mr. Graefe for several
years, which business he virtually conducted alone. After the war he started in
the mercantile business with H. F. Bosquet. It was some years after that he
formed a partnership with W. D. Forsyth in the drug business, later purchasing
the interest of Mr. Forsyth, taking over the entire business which he conducted
until 1897 when he sold the business to Allen & Stubenrauch, retiring at this
time. He with his family left the same year for England where he represented
several American manufacturers in that country, and was very successful. In 1912
he turned the business over to his son-in- law, Wm. Sellers, who with his wife,
Sarah Brinkhoff Sellers, are still in the business in that country. During his
life in Pella he showed his great  progressive spirit in the community movements
and was the father of the planting of the present trees that we are enjoying. He
erected two very fine busi-