Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . f him during his mercantile businesscareer, was his strict regularity. His home was two doors frommy residence, and as rapid transit means to his store he had afavorite pacer, and so regular and precise was his going and com-ing, the neighbors and residents along the way used to say theycould set their clocks by it, and so it was at the store, where he wasthe first to arrive and the last to leave. Politically, he was a War Democrat, but since he came to DesMoines has not sought nor held any political ofSce, yet has takenan intere
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . f him during his mercantile businesscareer, was his strict regularity. His home was two doors frommy residence, and as rapid transit means to his store he had afavorite pacer, and so regular and precise was his going and com-ing, the neighbors and residents along the way used to say theycould set their clocks by it, and so it was at the store, where he wasthe first to arrive and the last to leave. Politically, he was a War Democrat, but since he came to DesMoines has not sought nor held any political ofSce, yet has takenan interest in political affairs, and, in a quiet, but not less effectiveway, has exerted a potent influence in behalf of the dominant prin-ciples of the Republican party and good civic government. Religiously, he is not a member of any denominational church,but is broad and catholic in his views. The stork has brought to his home but one child, a daughter,the wife of J. D. Whisenand, of the Central State Bank, a promi-nent and active citizen. June Thirtieth, 1907. I I. FRANCIS GENESER FRANCIS GENESER AWELL-KXOWX old-timer, eligible to a place in a history ofPolk County or reminiscences thereof, is Francis on the Ehine, in Bavaria, Germany, he passed theyears of his minority with his father, who was a stone mason andcutter, the two trades being combined in that country. He attendedthe common school, which corresponded with the district schoolsof the United States, from the age of six until he was thirteen. A revolution having broken out in several of the provinces in1848, and having arrived at his majority and liable to six yearsGovernment military service, his only means of escaping it was inleaving the coimtry. In ISJovember, 1849, with two comrades, heset sail from Havre for New York, where they landed twenty-ninedays later. They looked the town over, and thought it too large aplace for them, and they went to Albany, where the two comradeshad friends. There he got a job
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