ALBERT DAVID.
Among the representative farmers of Lincoln township, none is more deserving of praise than Albert David, the subject of this sketch. He possesses the qualities necessary for success on a farm, and has not been slow in putting his ability to a use that would give him the best possible returns. He has fully demonstrated that progress is the order of the age. He is a good manager, and keeps himself well informed on the most approved methods of up-to-date farming and stock raising.
Albert David, general farmer and stockman, Lincoln township, Audubon county, is a son of John and Wilhelmena David. After carefully considering the matter, he decided to branch out as a farmer on his own responsibility, and rented a farm in Douglas township, which he cultivated for two years after his marriage, and then went into partnership with his father on his farm, remaining with him until twenty-eight years old. Leaving his father, he bought a farm in Lincoln township, in section 17, where he remained six years, after which he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 21, which at one time belonged to his father, and which he still owns and lives on. He has put in about three thousand dollars worth of improvements on the place, and has made a specialty of corn and small grain, which he feeds to hogs and cattle. He feeds, on an average, fifty hogs each year. Mr. David has done his share in filling the township offices. He was school director for one year, and road supervisor about the same length of time. He is a member of the German Lutheran church, and in politics, votes the Democratic ticket.
The parents of our subject were both born in Germany, coming to America in 1886, and settled in Audubon county. The father worked as a farm hand for four or five years, and then rented a farm and commenced to farm for himself. In a few years, he had accumulated sufficient money to purchase a farm of eighty acres in section 17, Lincoln township, where he lived six years, when he sold out and bought a larger farm, on which he still lives in section 21. They had six children---Johanna, Carl, Albertina, Fred, Albert and Agusta. Agusta has never married.
Mr. David was married in 1899, to Minnie Borkowski, daughter of Henry and Alvina Borkowski, by whom he has had five children, as follow: Edna, Alford, Emil, Clarence and Hugo.
Mrs. David's father, Henry Borkowski, came from Germany. Her mother, Alvina Polzin, came from Germany, also, and settled in Cook county, Illinois, for two years, after which they located in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, and later came to Lincoln township, Audubon county, where he is still living. The mother is now dead. They were the parents of the following children: Emil, Otto, Minnie, Henry, Gustav, and two daughters who died when young.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 511-512.
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