John Carl HEESE

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1900 Census-Iowa-Shelby Co.-Westphalia Twp.-Earling town-family # 11 Chas. Apr. 1858 Germany, Imm. 1876, married 14 yr., lumber dealer; Elizabeth Mar. 1865IA, 9 children, 7 living; Rosa Oct. 1887 IA; Margaret Jan. 1889 IA; Celia July1890 IA; Matilda July 1892 IA; Lena Apr. 1894 IA; Joseph Mar. 1896 IA; Albert Aug. 1898 IA =====

Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 1193-95: JOHN CARL HEESE It is the progressive, wide-awake men of affairs who make the real history of a community, and their influence as potential factors of the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples of such men furnish of patient urpose and steadfast integrity, strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish. No higher class of citizens are to be found in this county than those who have come here from Germany, for without exception, they have been men of high character and good business ability. They are found in every line of activity and wherever they locate they soon make an impressionupon the community as men of sterling worth. One of the leading German residents of this county is John C. HEESE, a prosperous lumber and coal dealer of Earling. He is the son of John and Anna (DREXELIUS) HEESE, and was born April 15,1858, in Westphalia, Germany. His father was a farmer in his native land and gave him a farm of sixty-five acres upon his marriage. He continued to farm until 1876 when he disposed of his farm and came to this country with his family and settled upon a farm of one hundred sixty acres in Westphalia township, ShelbyCounty, Iowa. He added to his land holdings from time to time until, at the time of his death, he owned two hundred twenty acres in this county. He retired from active work in 1882 and moved to Earling, where he resided until his death,February 14, 1899, at the age of seventy-eight. His wife was born June 1825 and died in Earling, September 26, 1894. John and Anna HEESE were the parents of four children: Henry, who married Amelia KUHL; Peter, who married Bertha SASSE;Bertha, the wife of Emil ZIMMERMAN; John C., whose career is here briefly set forth. John Carl HEESE attended school in his native land and after leaving school was apprenticed to a carpenter in order to learn the trade. He continued to follow that trade until he came with his parents to America, but when his father located upon a farm in Shelby County, he assisted on the home farm. He remained with his father until 1880, when he resumed the carpenter's trade, following it until 1886, when he opened a lumber and coal yard at Earling, a businesswhich he has since followed with marked success. He now has one of the largestand most complete lumber yards in the county and has built up a trade which extends for many miles in every direction. He is a man of keen business ability, and because he has followed strict rules of honesty in all his dealings with his customers. In addition to his business interests in Earling, he owns five hundred forty four acres in this county and one hundred sixty acres in Colorado. Mr. HEESE was married November 26, 1885, to Mary E. GOLOBITH, the daughter of John and Rosina (NIPP) GOLOBITH. Her father was born in Austria, her mother in Switzerland, and they were married in Dubuque, Iowa. Mrs. HEESE is one of sevenchildren, the other six being Rosa, Mary Elizabeth, Katherine, Theresa, John and Annie. Mr. GOLOBITH was a farmer all his life, dying in 1894, his widow now living with her daughter, Mrs. HEESE. To Mr. and Mrs. HEESE have been born eleven children: Mary Rosa, Anna Margaret, Cecelia Rosalia, Matilda Theresa, Magdalena K., Joseph, Albert, Emil, Cornelia Bertha, Alphonso John, and Marcus Valerious. Mary Rosa is the wife of Joseph A. LANGFELD and has two children, Benetaand Coletta. Anna Margaret married Matthew SCHOMERS. Cecelia Rosalie is the wife of A. N. FINKEN and has two sons, Sylvester and Austin. Matilda Theresa married John S. FINKEN. All the remainder of the child

John married Elizabeth Mary GOLLOBITH in 1885. (Elizabeth Mary GOLLOBITH was born in Jun 1865 in Dubuque Co., IA, died in 1937 in Earling, Shelby, IA, USA and was buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Earling, Shelby Co., IA (Gravesite: I-4-6).)