The Schierholz Family

Jacob Schierholz in History of Boone County, Iowa

The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.

JACOB SCHIERHOLZ.

Jacob Schierholz, a representative agriculturist of Boone county who has resided here for a period of forty-five years, is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land on sections 8 and 6, Yell township. His birth occurred in Germany on the 27th of February, 1851, his parents being Peter and Catherine (Frahm) Schierholz, who were likewise natives of that country. The father, who devoted his attention to farming in Germany throughout his entire business career, there passed away in 1854, while the mother was called to her final rest on the 9th of June, 1894.

Jacob Schierholz spent the first eighteen years of his life in the fatherland and there pursued his education but continued his studies in the United States after the age of twenty. On the 27th of February, 1869, he set sail for the new world and on reaching American shores made his way to Clinton county, Iowa, where he worked for others until December of that year. He then came to Boone county and was here employed as a farm hand for seven years, while subsequently he cultivated rented land for one year. In 1872 he purchased forty acres of his present farm in Yell township and began the improvement of the property. As his financial resources increased, owing to his untiring industry and capable man-

agement, he extended the boundaries of his place by additional purchase until it now embraces one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land, eighty acres thereof lying in section 8 and the remaining eighty in section 6. Alert, energetic and industrious, he has met with success in his undertakings, practicing the rotation of crops and cultivating his farm after the most approved methods of modern agriculture.

On the 20th of September, i88o, Mr. Schierholz was united in marriage to Miss Frances McKune, a daughter of Edward and Minerva B. (Hastings) McKune, the former a native of Great Bend, Pennsylvania, and the latter of New York. Edward McKune removed to Illinois at an early day and in August, 1862, enlisted for service in the Civil war from Dixon, that state, joining Company E, Seventy-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was killed in October of the same year, in the first battle at Perryville, Kentucky, thus laying down his life on the altar of his country. The demise of his wife occurred in December, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Schierholz are the parents of eleven children, as follows: Emily, who gave her hand in marriage to Charles N. Frost, of Lee Center. Illinois ; Catherine E., the wife of William Kruse; Peter, at home; Jacob E., who is a resident of Beaver, Boone county; Frances M., the wife of Fred Drew, of Perry, Iowa; Har- riett A., who is the wife of Everett Hull, of Ogden, Iowa; Albert H., also living in Ogden, this state; Lurena E., who is the wife of Mason Pugh, a miner of Yell township ; and Mabel, Wilhelm and Loue, all of whom are still under the parental roof.

In his political views Mr. Schierholz is a stanch republican, loyally supporting the men and measures of that party at the polls. His religious faith is that of the United Brethren church. His many excellent traits of character have won him an extensive circle of friends and he is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community in which the greater part of his life has been spent.

Source: History of Boone County, Iowa. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.