ADAM WOLLENHAUPT
Adam Wollenhaupt was born in Germany on the 18th of March, 1852. He spent most of his younger days in school, and when sixteen years of age he came to America, and located in Monroe county, New York, for a few months, when he went to La Salle county, Illinois, and there lived until 1875, when he came to Cass county. He purchased eighty acres of land on section 8, and at this time he has it all improved, and has planted a variety of fruit and shade trees. He has built a frame house and has one of the best set of farm buildings in the county. Mr. Wollenhaupt was married in November, 1877, to Bertha Roasch, a native of Prussia. They have three children -- Fredrich, Lina E. and Walter F.
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. 675.
