Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 224
CHARLES F. PRIEN, a leading farmer residing on section 31, Fulton Township, is a Hawkeye by birth, and has spent his entire life in this State. He was born in the city of Davenport, Nov. 8, 1858 and is a son of John and Augustina ( Wagner ) Prien. His father was a native of Prussia, Germany, born May 30, 1817, and when quite a young lad emigrated to America, landing at Baltimore on the day of the celebration of independence, 1857, after having been on the water for nine weeks. Going directly to Chicago, Ill., he remained in that city a short time, after which he removed to Davenport, where he continued to reside for ten years. For some time he was employed on a steamboat on the Mississippi, often receiving $5 per day. While in Germany he was united in marriage with Augustina Wagner, and to them were born a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living---Bertha, Henry, Lena, Charles F., Amelia, August, and John. Theodore and William are deceased.

Our subject remained in Davenport until nine years of age, when he removed with his parents to Muscatine County, locating in Montpelier Township, where he received his education in the common schools, and assisted his father in cultivating that farm for fifteen years, when the family removed to what was known as the McGarvey farm, situated north of Pleasant Prairie. The succeeding four years Charles spent under the parental roof, and was then united in marriage with Miss Maggie Mohr, a daughter of Hans and Glashoff Mohr, their union being celebrated on the 12th day of September, 1886. The lady is one of a family of ten children, of whom she is the eldest, the other members of the family being Henry, Lena, Emma, Bertha, Cecilia, Frederick, Henry, Rosa and May, all of whom are yet living, and are in the enjoyment of good health. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Prien began their domestic life upon the old Alfred Nye farm, where they still continue to reside. They are numbered among the highly respected citizens of Fulton Township, and are greatly esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

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