Joseph Kallenbach

As printed in 1911

One of the citizens of Orange township. Clinton county, who enjoys distinctive prestige among the enterprising men of his locality is Joseph Kallenbach. who has fought his way upward to a prominent position in industrial circles, and in every relation of life his voice and influence are on the side of right as he sees and understands the right. He was born in Muscatine county. Iowa, in 1857, and is the son of Anton Kallenbach and wife, who are mentioned under the sketch of John Kallenbach elsewhere in this work.

The subject was a child when he came to Clinton county with his parents, in 1862. and located in Clinton county. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. He was put to work in the fields of his father's farm when a boy and learned the business, and he has followed farming all his life, having begun working in the crops when ten years of age. He remained with his father on the home place until he was twenty-six years of age. He then bought where he now li-\'es, eighty acres in Orange township. He has prospered and is now the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and one acres in his main farm and fifty-one acres of timber. His land is all well improved, and he has a substantial and comfortable home and convenient outbuildings. Besides general farming, Mr. Kallenbacli is a successful stock-raiser, giving especial attention to the breeding of Poland-China hogs.

Mr. Kallenliacli is a very successful business man and is a director of the German IMutual Telephone Company, of Clinton and Scott counties, which is a very paying venture. He has long been interested in the good roads movement and has taken a \-ery active part in the road work of his county. He has been road boss for nianv years, and he now takes contracts for road construction work. He has also taken a great deal of interest in promoting the telephone company- mentioned above, and was one of its organizers in

Mr, Kallenbach was married on November 21, 1881. to Elizabeth Hesse, daughter of an excellent and well known family of this county, and this union has resulted in the birth of the following children: Ollie H.; Anna C. died when seventeen years of age; Orsena F., Viona J. and Alfred B.

This family are faithful members of the Catholic church and Mr. Kallenbach is a Democrat politically. He is regarded by all who know him as one of the township's leading and most progressive citizens in every respect and well deserving of the respect and success he has won.

As printed in Wolfe's history of Clinton County, Iowa (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.