The Kohl Family of Jones County, Iowa

HENRY F. KOHL.

Henry F. Kohl, one of the substantial farmers of Greenfield township, though not a native of this state was only eight years old when in 1864 his parents, Amos and Maria (Grimm) Kohl, came to Iowa and procured their homestead in Greenfield township, Jones county. They removed from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and later came to Iowa, where they made their home until their death. They secured a good tract of land at a very moderate cost and upon it reared their family of nine children, four sons and five daughters: Mrs., Mary Kline, Henry F., Will, Mrs. Nellie Hempy, Lewis, Mrs.

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Among the native sons of Greenfield township who are still working diligently for her progress in agricultural lines is numbered Lewis Kohl, who was born on the parental homestead July 19, 1864, a son of Amos and Maria (Grimm) Kohl. In their family were the following children: Mrs. Mary Kline, Henry, Will, Mrs. Nettie Hempy, Lewis, Mrs. Emma Stearns, Mrs. Tena Melton. Charles and Mrs. Minnie Fink.

Reared upon the homestead farm, Lewis Kohl early acquired an excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits and received a fair education in the schools of the locality. When he engaged in farming on his own account he procured one hundred and six acres of the best land in Greenfield, and there has toiled early and late, obtaining a handsome competence. His farm is well improved and presents to the view a gratifying expanse of carefully tilled fields, and a collection of buildings modern in their construction, and in the good repair in which they are maintained evincing the thrift of their owner.

On the 6th of April, 1887, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kohl and Miss Addie Miller, a daughter of Joseph Miller. Their union has been blessed with three children: Clarence, who has just attained his majority; Ethel, who was twenty on the 5th of August, 1909, and is the wife of William Bailey; and Amos, who is a young man of sixteen years.

Mr. Kohl is a member of the Evangelical church, while he gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He has ever evinced a great deal of public spirit and for twenty years has served his township as one of the school board and is at present a trustee. Progressive in his ideas, high principles in his acts, his part in the administration of the local affairs has been such as to command the appreciation of the citizens.

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CHARLES E. KOHL.

Charles E. Kohl is one of the native farmers of Greenfield township whose industrious toil has contributed materially to the agricultural prosperity of his part of the county. He was born June 9, 1873, on the old homestead which his parents, Amos and Maria (Grimm) Kohl, had secured in 1864 shortly after they came to Iowa. They have since passed away, but the large family they reared still live, many of them in Greenfield township, where they are engaged in farming. The children were Mrs. Mary Kline, Henry, Will, Mrs. Nettie Henrpy. Lewis, Mrs. Emma Stearns. Mrs. Tena Melton, Charles and Mrs. Minnie Fink.

Charles E. Kohl passed his boyhood days upon the paternal place, and under the guidance of his parents not only learned those practical lessons in farming but obtained the equally important instruction in the principles by which he should order his life. Training in the rudimentary branches of English education he received in the little school of his district in the few months in the year when his services were not required on the farm. Desultory, perhaps and incomplete as this instruction may have been it pointed the way to success in his work, for in addition to the four hundred and forty acres on which he makes his home, Mr. Kohl owns two hundred acres in Cedar county, a goodly landholding to show as the result of his own efforts. His fields are all under excellent cultivation, whether he himself has directed the work or those to whom he has intrusted it. Progressive in his ideas, he has spared no effort to increase the efficiency of his methods of agriculture, and in consequence is well repaid for his labor.

On the 2d of April, 1896, Mr. Kohl wedded Miss Belle Andre. Her father Reuben Andre, is a resident of Mechanicsville, but her mother, who was Miss Mary Kelsey in her maidenhood, died in 1908. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kohl; Lulu, a young miss of twelve years; Grace, aged ten; Earl, seven years old; Gladys, aged four, and Darrell, only three years old.

Mr. Kohl belongs to the Evangelical Association of Greenfield, and in political matters gives his allegiance unswervingly to the 'democratic party, feeling assured of the soundness of its principles as enunciated in the platform and expounded by its leaders. He is a member of the Mechanicsville lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America.

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