History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . growing here that hadbeen planted before he came. All the other plantings and im-provements on the place have been made by him, and, with the as-sistance of his sons, he continues to operate the farm. In 1873 Mr. Bohn married Miss Augusta Bohn, like himself anative of Germany. She died in 1900, at the age of forty-eightyears. Of the seven children born to them, we record that Cla
History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . growing here that hadbeen planted before he came. All the other plantings and im-provements on the place have been made by him, and, with the as-sistance of his sons, he continues to operate the farm. In 1873 Mr. Bohn married Miss Augusta Bohn, like himself anative of Germany. She died in 1900, at the age of forty-eightyears. Of the seven children born to them, we record that Clara,the eldest, is the wife of Albert Roenfanz, of Hancock county,Iowa; Helena wife of Albert Jass, also lives in Hancock county;Julius is a resident of Grant township, Cerro Gordo county, andEdward, Emma, Bertha and Herman are at home. The familyare members of the German Lutheran church. ANDREW W. STORER. Cerro Gordo coxinty is fortunate in having been settled by aremarkably industrious, enterprising, intelligent and prosperousclass of people, prominent among the number having been the lateAndrew W. Storer, for many years one of the foremost agricul-turists of Pleasant Valley He was born January 15,. HISTORY OF CERRO GORDO COUNTY 539 1851. in Dane county, Wisconsin, and died November 29, 1904, atMason City, his death being regarded as a public loss to the com-munity. He was the son of Daniel and Eunice (Palmer) Storer. theformer of whom, a venerable man of eighty-five years, is living inDane county, Wisconsin, while the latter died in May, 1908, at theage of seventy-nine years. They were the parents of five children,as follows: Andrew W., the subject of this brief biographical sketch ;Prescott; E. R., of Mitchell, South Dakota; Dr. W. D., of Chicago,Illinois; and Nettie, living with her aged father. His parents settling near Madison, Wisconsin, when he was butfour years old, Andrew W. Storer acquired his first knowledge ofbooks in the district schools, subsequently a
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