He of whom we write is one who has risen from comparative obscurity to prominence by means of his own exertions and indomitable will power. He is the center of a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who honor and esteem him for his many manly virtues and genuine worth. Mr. Sindt was born in Holstein, Germany, on the nineteenth of November 1824, and is the fourth of six children born of the union of Hans and Anna (Lamp) Sindt. His brothers and sisters were Claus, Henry, Jochen, Anna and Hans. Our subject's father died in 1858 at the advanced age of sixty-four. His mother died while he was quite young. Mr. Sindt, Sr., came to the United States in 1854 and located in Davenport, where he remained for a short time, when he moved on the farm with our subject. He was an influential as well as an early settler of Scott County.
Theis Sindt preceded his father to this country, arriving here in 1847, and locating in the City of Davenport. He was educated in the public schools of his native land, after which he served an apprentice ship at the tinner's trade. After his location in Davenport he followed this trade from 1817 to 1855. He then made the purchase of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section seven , in Davenport Township, on which he still resides. He has one of the richest as well as one of the best improved farms in the County, and also owns about eight hundred acres in the western part of the State. At the time he settled on the farm on which he now lives there were no fences and but few houses in sight.
He was united in marriage, in 1850, to Miss Adel Stoltenberg, who died in 1872. Of this union eight children were born, viz: H. H., Minnie, William, Theodore, Meta, Herman B., Lou E. and Clara. Mr. Sindt and family are supporters of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Republican and takes an active interest in all political issues. He is not a Republican through any desire to hold office, but because he thinks the principles of his party are best adapted to the government of the country and the promotion of prosperity among the people. He filled the office of supervisor from 1867 to 1870, and has for twenty-five years been a member of the school board and its president.
Mr. Sindt is public-spirited to a high degree and is thoroughly interested in whatever tends to promote the moral, intellectual and material welfare of the community. He is social, affable and genial, and a most agreeable and companionable man. In nothing does he take a greater pleasure than in having his family gathered about him, and entertaining his friends around his own fireside and hospitable board. He is self-made in all that the term implies. He has surmounted one by one the barriers that obstructed the way to success, until now he stands within the charmed circle of those rich in honor and in wealth, a devoted lover of his adopted State. He is a kind husband and father and has an enlarged and comprehensive view of the rights and liberties of his fellow-men.
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