THOS. HARDENBERGH
Thomas Hardenbergh was born in Ulster county, New York, on the 13th of March, 1813, his parents being Nicholas and Margaret (Cronk) Hardenbergh. His father participated in the war of 1812, and always lived in the place where Thomas was born. Thomas enlisted, in 1837, in company D, First United States Artillery, and was wounded in the hand at Mosquito Swamp, Florida. He removed to Illinois in 1857, and was there engaged in the nursery business until 1859, when he came to Cass county, Iowa, and located at Lewis. In 1864 he removed to his present location, on section 17, Atlantic township. He was married in New York, on the 10th of March, 1842, to Fanny C. Nieur. Their union has been blessed with six children, all born in New York--Mary, married to William Raeny, now living in Atlantic; Georgia, married to Warren L. Dean, now living in Pottawattamie county; Alice, married to R. G. Phelps, of Atlantic; Theodore W., now in Peoria, Illinois; Asa, married to Sadie Moreland; Ada, married to F. D. Clues. Mr. Hardenbergh owns eighty acres of good land, and has an orchard of eight hundred bearing trees, also a small vineyard. He was a member of Columbia lodge. A. F. and A. M., at Tuttletown, Ulster county.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 845.
