FRED H. HORNING.
A student interested in the history of Audubon county, Iowa, does not have to carry his investigations far into its annals before learning that Fred H. Horning, a retired farmer of Audubon, Iowa, has long been one of its most active and leading citizens, especially in agricultural and stock raising affairs. His labors have been a potent force in making this a rich agricultural region, and during several decades Mr. Horning has carried on general farming, gradually improving his valuable place until a few years ago when he moved to Audubon, since which time he has lived retired. While he has prospered in a material way, he has also found time and opportunity to assist in the civic development of the county of his residence.
Fred H. Horning, a well-known retired farmer of Audubon, Iowa, was born on January 5, 1852, in Germany. His birthplace was Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and be is a son of John and Lena (Wendt) Horning, the former of whom died in 1865, in his native land. Fred Horning was the youngest of six children, the others being as follow: John, who died in New York state; William, living in New York; Joseph, also a resident of the state of New York; Mrs. Sophia Stade, the widow of Anton Stade, is living in New York; Mrs. Dora Krueger, living in Nebraska, is the overseer in the tailor shop of the Carnegie Industrial School.
Fred Horning came to America when nineteen years of age. He arrived in this country in the fall of 1871, and located on a farm in New York state, where he was a laborer for six years. He then removed to Polk county, Iowa, where he rented land for five years. In the spring of 1882 he purchased eighty acres of land in Cameron township, Audubon county, for which he paid twenty dollars an acre, and resided on this farm for twenty years. At the end of this period he moved to a farm one and one-half miles southwest of the first farm on which he lived after coming to the county. This farm consisted of one hundred and sixty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Horning lived on this place for seven years, at the end of which time they moved to Audubon, where Mr. Horning owns two lots and a good home. He is the owner also of two hundred and forty acres of good farming land in Cameron township, which is divided into two farms.
Fred Horning was married on February 23, 1874, to Sophia Kahler, who was born in 1854, in Germany, and who came with her brother to this country in 1862, first locating in New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Horning are the parents of ten children: Frank, living in this county; William of Cameron township; Paul, a farmer of Cameron township; Charles, also a farmer of Cameron township; Albert, a farmer; Arthur, a student in the high school at Audubon; Augusta, the wife of Henry Schroeder, a farmer of Cameron township; Hetty, the wife of John Crow, a former [sic farmer] of this township, and they live on Mr. Horning's farm; Emma, the wife of Lou Hillyer, of Sioux City, Iowa; and Gretchen, of Sioux City.
In politics, Mr. Horning is a Democrat, and has served in the capacity of school director and road supervisor, and has filled both these offices with credit to himself and the people who appointed him. Mr. and Mrs. Horning and family are all members of the Lutheran church, and contribute liberally of their means to the support of this denomination.
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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. 793-794.
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