For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 669
ULISSIS GRANT HOLLENBECK....Ulissis Grant Hollenbeck, is numbered among the men of enterprise and business ability who have won for Muscatine county the reputation of being one of the best agricultural sections of this great state. He lives in Pike township, where general farming and stock-raising and feeding, claim his attention and his energies. His place is a well improved property of three hundred and thirty-two acres and it is the visible evidence of his life of well directed industry and thrift.His birth occurred in Linn county, Iowa, February 26, 1865, his parents being Jeremaih and Mary T. ( French ) Hollenbeck, both of whom were natives of New York, in which state their marriage was celebrated. They came to Iowa in 1864 and first took up their abode on a farm in Linn county, where they remained for two years. On the expiration of that period, they established their home in Pike township, Muscatine county, and subsequently came into possession of one hundred and twenty acres of land, in the cultivation of which Mr. Hollenbeck was actively and successfully engaged until called to his final rest in 1884. The mother was married a second time and now lives on a portion of our subjects farm. She has attained the age of seventy years. By her first marriage she was the mother of three children, as follows : Ida May, the wife of John Ziegler, of Johnson county, Iowa ; Ulisses G., of this review ; and Walter, a widower residing at Nichols, Iowa.
Ulisses G. Hollenbeck remained under the parental roof until twenty-four years of age, when he was married and established a home of his own. Having chosen the pursuit of agriculture as a life work, he began farming on a tract of forty acres of land which he owned in Pike township and which has remained in his possession to the present time. As his financial resources have increased he has added to his holdings by purchase until his farm now embraces three hundred and thirty-two acres of valuable land. In connection with tilling of the soil he has also devoted considerable attention to the raising and feeding of high grade stock, this branch of his business adding materially to his income. His farm is a well developed property, the fields yielding golden harvests as a tribute to the care and labor bestowed upon them.
On the 31st of January, 1889, Mr. Hollenbeck was united in marriage to Miss Katie Smith, who was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, on the 3d of September, 1867, her parents being George and Elizabeth ( Attic ) Smith, natives of germany. They crossed the Atlantic to the United States in early life, first settling in Illinois, where they resided until 1865, when they came to Iowa, locating on a farm in this county. Mr. Smith gave his attention to it's operation until 1906, when he put aside the active work of the fields and removed to Nichols, where he has since lived in honorable retirement. He has now attained the ripe old age of seventy-five years. Unto him and his wife were born ten children, namely : Adam, who resides on a farm in Pike township, this county ; Mrs. Hollenbeck ; George, who makes his home on a farm in Johnson county ; Anna, the deceased wife of Walter Hollenbeck, of Pike township, Muscatine county ; Sarah M., who is the wife of Phillip Lentz, of Johnson county, Iowa ; Ella Barbara, who gave her hand in marriage to Peter Lentz, of Johnson county ; John M., who is married and lives on a farm in Johnson county ; William, who died when eighteen months old ; Nicholas G. and Louis J., who make their home on a farm in Muscatine county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck have been born six children, as follows : Rose May, whose birth occurred February 26, 1890, and who died August 6, 1891 ; Lilly Ann, who was born August 27, 1891 ; George, who first opened his eyes to the light of day on the 4th of October, 1893 ; Nellie M., whose natal day was January 10, 1896 ; Arthur U., who was born February 26, 1898 ; and Albert, born March 31, 1905.
Mr. Hollenbeck is a democrat in politics but has no desire for the honors and emoluments of office. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, belonging to Lodge No. 4195 at Nichols, while religiously he and his family are connected with the Christian church. Almost his entire life has been passed in this county and he is well known here as an active and industrious citizen, who utilizes his opportunities to the best advantage and who is not afraid of that close application and indefatigable industry which constitutes the basis of all honorable success.
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