Charles E. Kohl

As printed in 1910

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.

As printed in History of Jones County, Iowa, past and present (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.