For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 551
EDWARD KEMPER. One of the prominent citizens of Montpelier township, Edward Kemper has earned the place he holds by years of well applied industry, in the course of which he acquired a farm that is scarcely surpassed by any other in the county in fertility and productiveness. A native of the township where he now lives, he was born April 15, 1865, a son of Henry and Charlotte (Weinberg) Kemper, a record of whom appears in the sketch of John Christopher Kemper elsewhere in this work. Our subject is also a brother of August Kemper, whose record is presented on another page in this work.Edward Kemper grew up as a farm boy and was early made acquainted with the details of agriculture and stock-raising. He attended the district school, where he acquired the rudiments of an education which he has greatly enlarged since arriving at manhood by reading and observation. At twenty-one years of age he began farming for himself, still continuing upon the home place and working under arrangements which he made with his father. In 1893, he rented two hundred acres in Montpelier township, which he cultivated for five years with such success that he was enabled to purchase two hundred and fifteen acres in his own name. Applying himself with still greater diligence, he made many improvements upon his place and now owns a fine farm of three hundred and eighty acres. He is a large raiser of live stock, including cattle, hogs, and sheep, and the prices which he receives in the market indicate that he thoroughly understands his business.
On the 10th of December, 1896, Mr. Kemper was united in marriage to Miss Annie Hennings, a daughter of George Hennings, who was born in Germany. Six children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Kemper, namely: Charlotte, deceased; and Mamie, Edgar Edwin, Bernhard, Theodore and Walter, all of whom are at home.
Having observed the advantages of thorough training for the young, Mr. Kemper is an ardent friend of education and especially of the public-school system. For fifteen years past he has served as treasurer of the school board and no man in the township has more earnestly striven to advance the standing of the schools by the employment of competent and trustworthy teachers. He is also township trustee and takes at all times the interest of a broad-minded and patriotic citizen in the development of the region with which he is identified. Energetic, capable and thoroughly efficient in what he undertakes, he enjoys in a high degree the respect and esteem of his fellowmen.
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