HENRY LINNEMAN
Henry Linneman came to the county of Cass in 1872, and located in Pleasant township. In 1879 he purchased eighty acres of land on section 22, where he built a neat frame house and granary. He is a native of Lippe-Detwold, Germany, and was born on the 6th of November, 1845. He was brought up in the "Fatherland," and attended school until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered upon the toils of life, laboring on a farm. This he followed until he was nineteen years old, when he emigrated from his native land to the shores of America. On coming to the United States, he first located at Burlington, Iowa, where he soon took up his old occupation of farming. From there he moved to Henderson county, Illinois, and there resided until 1872, when he came here, as already stated. His father died when Henry was seventeen years old, and his mother, with her four children came to America. Mr. Linneman is a thrifty, industrious man and a most excellent citizen, and is fast accumulating a comfortable competency, in strictly legitimate agricultural pursuits. He is one of the solid men of the township, and highly appreciated by his friends and neighbors.
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. 815.
