John Nuehring

As printed in 1916

John Nuehring is one of the sterling and honored citizens who is specially entitled to specific representation in this history, for he is not only one of the extensive landholders and prosperous and influential farmers of the county, which has been his home from the time of his birth, but is also a schon of one of the very early pioneer families of Clayton county, with whose history the name has been identified for more than seventy years. Mr. Nuehring was born in Jefiferson township, this county, on the 16th of November, 1848, and is a son of William and Mary (Biermann) Nuehring, both natives of the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany. William Nuehring was reared and educated in his native land and was a youth when he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. He came to this country about the year 1838 and first established his residence in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. About the year 1843 he came to Clayton county, Iowa, and became one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson township, where he obtained a tract of wild land and set to himself the task of reclaiming a farm. He proved himself well fortified for the activities and responsibilities of pioneer life, but his life was not spared to enable him to gain the fruition of his earnest labors. He passed to eternal rest about the year 1851, when in the prime of his useful manhood and when his son John, of this review, was a child of about three years. His wife survived him by more than forty years and was summoned to the life eternal about the year 1896, when venerable in age, both having been devout communicants of the Lutheran church. Of their children the first-born was Eliza, who died at the age of 76 years; Mary is the widow of Adam Brown and maintains her home in the city of Columbus, Ohio; William is deceased; John, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Henry is a resident of Guttenburg, this county; and Frederick is deceased. John Nuehring was, as already noted, a mere child at the time of his father's death, but he was reared to manhood under the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, the while he made good use of the educational opportunities afforded in the schools of the village of Guttenberg, a fine German colony having seen to it in the early days that excellent schools were provided for the youth of the community. Mr, Nuehring as a youth continued his active association with the work and management of the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and finally he purchased the property, his present valuable landed estate, which comprises four hundred acres and constitutes one of the model farms of the county. He still gives his active supervision to the operations of his splendidly improved farm, which is devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of high-grade live stock, including the Aberdeen type of cattle. Mr. Nuehring has never wavered in his allegiance to the Republican party, has been loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, has served as school director, and both he and his wife have long been zealous communicants of the Lutheran church at Guttenberg, which is their postoffice address. In April, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Nuehring to Miss Annistina Ribbie, who was born in Hanover, Germany, on the 18th of September, 1852, and who was a child when her parents, William and Louisa (Luehring) Ribbie came to Clayton county and established their home in Jefferson township. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Nuehring the first was Amelia, who died when about 18 years of age; Alvina remains at the parental home; Louisa is the wife of Otto Lake, of Guttenberg; William is a substantial farmer of Jefferson township and is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; and Mary died in childhood.

As printed 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 (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.