Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 201
CHARLES F. WABNITZ, a representative farmer residing in Seventy-Six Township, in Muscatine County, Iowa, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1845, and is a son of Charles and Elizabeth ( Welk ) Wabnitz, who were natives of Baden, Germany, and emigrated to America in 1842,settling first in Hamilton County, Ohio, where the father engaged in farming. He purchased an improved farm, and also some timber land, upon which he resided for about ten years, when in 1852, he came to Louisa County, Iowa. Purchasing a farm of 120 acres of improved land in Port Louisa Township, he still continues to make it his home, though has added to the original purchase until the farm is now 320 acres in extent.

Our subject was reared to farm life, and his primary education was received in the district schools of Ohio and Iowa, being supplemented by a course at the schools at Plainfield, Ill. After completing his education he returned to Louisa County, where he has-since engaged in farming. In 1868, in Grand View Township, his marriage with Mary Ann Wagner, daughter of P.C. and Catherine ( Stroh ) Wagner, was celebrated. Her parents came to Louisa County in 1854, settling on a farm near the village of Grand View, where they yet reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Wabnitz have been born eight children, seven of whom are yet living: Lavina Agnes, Lula Lizzie, William W., Kittie Bell, Alpha, Amelia, Edith May, and Bessie Pearl. Newton N., the third child, died Sept.21, 1881, at the age of six years and six months.

After his marriage Mr. Wabnitz began farming upon the old homestead in Port Louisa Township, where he remained two years, and then purchased a farm of 120 acres in Grand View, which he improved and made his home for ten years, but in 1881 traded it for his present farm, consisting of 80 acres in Louisa County, and 270 acres in Muscatine County, all arable land, highly cultivated and with good improvements. He is also the owner of 430 acres of grass land situated on the island in Port Louisa Township. His home farm is well stocked with a good grade of Holstein cattle In his political views he is a supporter of the Republican party, was a member of the Grange, and is one of the stockholders in the Co-operative Store at Letts. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, in which he holds the office of Trustee, and are universally respected in the community where they reside.

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