MUNDT, H. D.

MUNDT, BENSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/9/2006 at 16:43:58

H. D. Mundt is cashier of the Union Bank at Toeterville and is one of the progressive business men of Mitchell county. Alert and enterprising, he is always ready to take advantage of any legitimate opportunity and step by step he has worked his way upward in his business career.

He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, August 15, 1881, and therefore is a western man by birth as well as by training and by preference, and throughout his entire life he has displayed the enterprising spirit which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of the west. His parents are John and Louisa (Gluck) Mundt. The father was born in Denmark and is of German extraction. He came to the United States when a little lad of ten years and through most of his life has engaged in the coal, grain and live stock business, which he has carried on successfully in South Dakota. He has also been prominent in public affairs there, serving as county treasurer, while at the present time he is city commissioner of Sioux Falls. He exerts a wide influence over public thought and action there and has had much to do with the political progress as well as with the material upbuilding of the community in which he lives.

H. D. Mundt, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, acquired his education in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until he was graduated from the high school at Sioux Falls. Later he had the advantage of two years' training in the Dakota Wesleyan University. He left school to enter the lumber business at Hartford, South Dakota, in 1900, there remaining an active factor in commercial circles for two years. He afterward spent some time at work in Juneau, Alaska, and as. grain buyer at Crooks, South Dakota, until 1906, when he embarked in the grain and coal business with his father at Toeterville, Iowa. In 1917 he was elected cashier of the Union Bank, which is the new bank of Toeterville, and is now filling that position in connection with the conduct of his other business interests. He is a forceful and resourceful man, ready for any emergency, and his ability and his enterprise have carried him into important relations.

On the 27th of June, 1906, Mr. Mundt was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Benson, of Crooks, South Dakota, and they are the parents of three children: Herman, Loraine and Edna.

Mr. Mundt belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge at Lyle, Minnesota, and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party, but he does not seek office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, which are of constantly growing importance.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1918, Vol. II, Page 147 & 148.