A. KOOB
A. Koob, one of the prominent men of Grant township, was born in Germany, in 1841, and when twelve years of age he moved with his parents to America, and settled in Jackson county, Iowa, where he remained until the breaking out of the war. He then enlisted in Company F, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and served in that capacity until 1863. He was injured by a horse falling upon him and was taken to the hospital, where he remained some months. In 1863 he returned to Jackson county, and there remained until the spring of 1872, when he came to Cass county, and located in Grant township, where at that time no timber or any shrubbery grew that could be used. He built a cabin on his farm, in which he lived a short time, when he erected a fine house. He now owns two hundred and forty acres of land on section 6, and is raising large numbers of fine stock. He was married in Jackson county, Iowa, to Mary Van Slike, a native of New York. They are the parents of four children--John, William, Cynthia and Homer. Mr. Koob is a member of the I. O. O. F., and G. A. R. orders, and of the A. F. and A. M.
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. 690-691.
