Henry SCHOENING

SCHOENING, HENRY E.

Henry E. Schoening, one of the most thrifty and prosperous farmers of Mills county, was born in Holstein, Germany, October 28, 1838, his parents being Peter and Sylvia (Karsten) Schoening. The mother died in Germany, May 2, 1849, when fifty-six years of age but the father afterward came to the new world, crossing the Atlantic in 1860. He took up his abode in Oak township, Mills county, becoming one of the successful farmers there, his attention being given to agricultural pursuits throughout the remainder of his active business career. He died November 2, 1881, at the age of seventy-eight years, and is now survived by two of his four children, the brother of our subject being a resident farmer of Pottawattamie county, Iowa.

Henry E. Schoening spent the days of his boyhood under the parental roof and when nineteen years of age started out upon an independent business career. He has been a very successful farmer and stock-raiser and now owns over five hundred acres of valuable land in Mills county, together with three hundred and twenty acres in Lancaster and Nance counties, Nebraska. He also has business interests in Council Bluffs, being a member of the firm of Peterson & Schoening, dealers in hardware and furniture. On the 18th of August, 1865, Mr. Schoening was united in marriage to Miss Katrina Brockman, a daughter of Peter and Ida (Boe) Brockman, natives of Holstein, Germany, whence they came to America in 1864, locating first in Nebraska, where they remained for four years, and then removing to St. Marys township in Mills county, Iowa. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Schoening have been born eight children, as follows: Emma Mary, August William, Charlie Edwarad, Marquart C., Anna Katrina, Wilhelmina Christina, and Nelly Sophia and Martha Louise, who are deceased. The two oldest children are living in Nebraska upon farms of their own, while the other surviving members of the family are still with their parents. There is a grandchild, Ernest M. Geise, who is living with Mr. Schoening.

In his political views the subject of this review is a stanch Democrat, but cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He has filled the offices of township clerk, assessor and trustee, and has been a member of the school board for twenty-eight years, the cause of education finding in him a warm friend. In all his public duties he has been found true and faithful, being known as a worthy and acceptable officer. His pleasant home is located about ten miles from Glenwood and eight miles from Council Bluffs. Mr. Schoening is public-spirited in an eminent degree, national progress and local advancement are both dear to the heart of this adopted and thoroughly loyal son of the republic. His devotion to the country is above question, and no faithful son of America is more true to her institutions or more faithful to his duties of citizenship.

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