. History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement ... which denomination the family are all mem-bers, was superintendent of the Sunday school and a member of the board ofstewards. He made his life a force for good and it was generally felt that whenhe passed away death had called one whom the community could ill afford to demise occurred on the .22d of April, 1912, when he was but forty-one yearsand eleven days old. H. R. KLUVER. II. E. Kluver is actively engaged in general farming on section 16, Crystaltownship, and
. History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement ... which denomination the family are all mem-bers, was superintendent of the Sunday school and a member of the board ofstewards. He made his life a force for good and it was generally felt that whenhe passed away death had called one whom the community could ill afford to demise occurred on the .22d of April, 1912, when he was but forty-one yearsand eleven days old. H. R. KLUVER. II. E. Kluver is actively engaged in general farming on section 16, Crystaltownship, and is one of the extensive landowners of Hancock county. He hasever been a wide-awake and enterprising business man whose affairs have beencarefully conducted and whose investments have been judiciously made, bringingto him a gratifying measure of success. He was born in Butler county, Iowa,on the 12th of February, 1866, and is a son of Charles F. and Dora (Bowman)Kluver, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came to America in 1859and first settled in Chicago, where they resided for three years. On the expiration. T::^ UP-, ?;,,.;; WINNEBAGO AND HANCOCK COUNTIES 217 of tliat period they came to Iowa, establishing their home upon a farm in Butlercounty, where the father passed away, while subsequently the death of the motheroccurred in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa. They had a family of eleven children,seven of whom are yet living. H. E. Kluver spent his boyhood days in Butler county and in fact was iden-tified therewith until he reached the age of twenty-five, when he removed toHancock county, where he has made his home continuously since 1891, or for aperiod of more than a quarter of a century. He purchased a farm in thiscounty and in 1902 became the owner of the farm upon which he now resides, onsection 16, Crystal township. He has ever recognized the fact that real estateis the safest of all investments and as his financial resources have increased hehas added to his holdings
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