. 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. of one hundred and thirty-oneacres and where, in connection with general agricultural enterprise,he has given special attention to and been successful in the raisingof the fine Red Polled cattle. Mr. Lenth was born on the farmof his father in Farmersburg township, this county, and the dateof his nativity was August 22, 1870. He is a son of Carl and Doro-the
. 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. of one hundred and thirty-oneacres and where, in connection with general agricultural enterprise,he has given special attention to and been successful in the raisingof the fine Red Polled cattle. Mr. Lenth was born on the farmof his father in Farmersburg township, this county, and the dateof his nativity was August 22, 1870. He is a son of Carl and Doro-thea (Schmalfeld) Lenth, both of whom were born and reared inGermany, whence they came to America and established theirhome in Clayton county in the early pioneer days. Here the fatherlong held precedence as an energetic, enterprising and successfulfarmer, with impregnable standing as a loyal and honored citizen,and he continued to reside on his old homestead farm until hisdeath, which occurred in December, 1915. He was a zealous com-municant of the Lutheran church, as is also his widow, who stillremains on the old home place, and of their twelve children seven THE NKW vi>K,K PUBLIC LIBRARY ASrrOB, L£N9X AND TILUBN rUUNDATlWNS I L. GEOEGE J. LENTH BIOGRAPHICAL 247 survive the honored father. Albert Lenth found the period of hischildhood and youth compassed by the conditions and influenceof the home farm and early began to contribute his quota to itswork, the while he made good use of the advantages afforded inthe public schools. He continued to be associated in the manage-ment of his fathers farm until he had attained to the age of twentyyears, when he purchased his present farm, in Section 19, Farmers-burg township, where he has since continued his well-ordered oper-ations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, of which importantlines of industrial enterprise he is one of the representative expo-nents in his native county. He is a stockholder of the FarmersBank at St. Olaf, is
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