CHARLES KUESTER
Charles Kuester owes his nativity to Hanover, Germany, having been born on the 30th of January, 1853, and is the son of Christopher and Catharine Kuester. When about twelve years of age he came to America with his parents, and settled in LaSalle county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood, and was there educated in the public schools. He lived with his parents seventeen years, when he began farming, and was so engaged until 1873, when he came to Cass county and bought eighty acres of wild land on section 17, Noble township. he has since improved one hundred and sixty acres of land, and has erected a large frame house. He has a fine large pasture, and has in all his land two hundred and forty acres, which he intends to cultivates(sic), Mr. Kuester was married in 1875, to Catharine E. Abhaw, by whom he has had four children -- John Adam, Sophia Mary, Bertha Matilda, and Louis.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani 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. 680.
