. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. w Pm p<. I—IQ THE NEW Yunk ^UftLJC llBhAiiY Aaro«, LBN©! ANDTILDBN iroUNDATloNa BIOGRAPHICAL 20$ born in Jeflferson township, this county, on the 12th of September,1849, and is a son of William and Mary Kann, both natives ofGermany—the father having been born in Prussia and the motherin the Kingdom of Hanover, and their marriage having beensolemnized in
. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. w Pm p<. I—IQ THE NEW Yunk ^UftLJC llBhAiiY Aaro«, LBN©! ANDTILDBN iroUNDATloNa BIOGRAPHICAL 20$ born in Jeflferson township, this county, on the 12th of September,1849, and is a son of William and Mary Kann, both natives ofGermany—the father having been born in Prussia and the motherin the Kingdom of Hanover, and their marriage having beensolemnized in Clayton county. William Kann came with hisparents to America in the early 40s, and his father, Gottfried Kann,became one of the very early settlers in Jeflferson township, Clay-ton county, where he reclaimed a farm and where he and hiswife passed the remainder of their lives. William was reared andeducated in his native land and was a young man at the time ofthe immigration to America. After coming to Clayton county heentered claim to one hundred and sixty acres of government land,in what is now Jefferson township, and he rose to prominence andinfluence as one of the substantial farmers and sterling citizens ofthis county, where he died a
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