HANS NYMAND.
A successful farmer of Oaktield township, Audubon county, Iowa, and one who owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of fine farming land, Hans Nymand was born on February 9, 1862, in Schleswig, Germany, the son of Hans and Katherine (Miller) Nymand, both natives of Schleswig, Germany. Hans Nymand, Sr., was a farmer by occupation and owned eighty acres of land in his native country. Of his ten children, six, Jesse, Chris, Christina, Mettie Marie, Mary and Hans, are still living.
Hans Nymand, the immediate subject of this sketch, who has become a prosperous farmer in this country and a leader in public thought in the community where he lives, worked as a farm hand, mostly with his father, after leaving school. In 1881 he came to America, and after locating in Audubon county, worked as a farm laborer for one year, after which he rented the place where he is now living. After renting for one year he purchased one hundred and twenty acres, and has since increased his land holdings until he now owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres. Mr. Nymand has invested about seventy-five hundred dollars in improvements on his farm, which consist principally of out-buildings, fences and drainage. He feeds about one hundred head of hogs every year, and raises a good grade of live stock of all kinds. Ordinarily he raises forty acres of corn and thirty acres of small grain. On the farm where he lives he has built two large silos, which hold one hundred and sixty tons of ensilage.
On March 7, 1883, Hans Nymand was married to Mary Knudson, the daughter of Knud and Caroline Knudson, and to this union have been born three children, Harry, Walter and Ella. Harry married Nannie Nelson, and they have two children, Olivia and Imo. Walter and Ella are unmarried and are still living at home with their parents.
Mary Knudson was a native of Denmark, as were her parents before her. They came to America in 1873 and located at Atlantic, Iowa, and here her father worked as a section hand on the railroad for one year. He then removed to Audubon county and purchased eighty acres of land and began farming for himself. Mrs. Nymand's father and mother are now deceased. Of their children four are still living, Chris, Peter, Carolina and Mrs. Mary Nymand.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Nymand and family are faithful and earnest members of the Danish Lutheran church, and take a great interest in the welfare of this congregation. A Democrat in politics, he has served as assessor of Oakfield township, and was also a school director. He is a member of the Danish Brotherhood, in which he formerly served as president and secretary of the lodge. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the last named lodge he has filled all the chairs and is now a past grand.
Hans Nymand is not only a good farmer, but he is a good citizen, intelligent, progressive, broad-minded, courteous and considerate of the rights of others, and naturally he is well liked in the neighborhood and is popular in religious and fraternal circles in this township.
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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. 699-700.
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