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- John Malchow.
John Malchow, a highly respected and honored citizen of Huron township, came to American over fifty years ago, and by his honest, industrious labor has accumulated some of the material things that tend to add ease and comfort in his old age.
He is a son of Joseph and Dora (Frazee) Malchow, and was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, April 26, 1826. After attending the common schools in his native home, he spent his early boyhood on his father’s farm. In 1853 he came to American by way of New York, and settle in Laporte, Laporte county, Ind. Here he commenced his work in his adopted home as a laborer on a farm, which continued for a year and eight months. About his time he moved to the city of Laporte, and embarked in the railroad business, first acting as brakeman on the Lake Shore & Northern Indiana Railroad. Four years thus employed convinced him of the fact that he preferred the life of a farmer, and he accordingly purchased forty acres of farm land in Laport county, Indiana, where he farmed for some four years, until the war broke out in 1861, when he moved again to the city, and hired a substitute to take his place. After remaining in the city for four years, he went back to his first love, his farm in the country, where he stayed two years, and then sold it.
After a year’s residence on another place, he decided he would try his fortune in the West, and at once moved to Burlington, Iowa, where he began to work as a laborer for the Foote Woolen Mills. At the end of two years he once more realized that fact that he was cut out for a farmer, and took up his abode a mile south of Dodgeville, and was so successful in his farming operations as to be able to purchase eighty acres of good farm land in Benton township. This he cleared and greatly improved, and called home for fifteen years, each year adding more to it, till he had one hundred and eighty acres. He enlarged his possessions by buying three hundred and forty acres of land in the following townships: Two hundred and forty acres in Section 36, in Huron township, and fifty-six acres in Benton and Jackson townships, on which he built a large teen-room house, one barn thirty by forty feet, and another forty by twenty-six feet, also corn-cribs and cattle-sheds, thus improving his place in general, and giving it an entirely different appearance from that which it presented when he bought it. Mr. Malcow kept about fifty head of cattle, seventy-five head of hog, and raised a few Clyde horse, besides carrying on general farming.
During these prosperous years in American Mr. Malchow has been assisted by a faithful and devoted wife, since Jan.12, 1854, until March 13, 1904, when death claimed her, and left a void in the home. Mrs. Malchow’s maiden name was Mary E. Buhle, and was a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Buhle, both natives of Germany, where both lived and died. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Malchow three children were born: John Henry, born March 26, 1855 died at the age of fourteen years and is buried in Aspen Grove cemetery in Burlington, Iowa; Charles, born March, 1857, and passed away when two years of age; Louis Henry, born Jan. 30, 1864, married Miss Mary E. Wunnenberg, daughter of Henry and Emily Wunnenberg, born in Benton township, May 25, 1864, and they are parents of three children: Viola Leanor Vena, born Jan. 29, 1896; John Piermont, born June 20, 1898; and Louis Ivan, born July 25, 1901.
Mr. and Mrs. Malchow live at the home place with his father. They are members of the German Lutheran church. By the upright course in life which Mr. Malcow has ever chosen, he has made many friends, and is held in the highest esteem in the county.
From Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa. Chicago, Hobart Publishing Co, 1905. Pp829-830.
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- John Malchow (1826-1913) was born in Meckenberg germany, the son of Joseph and Dora (Frazee) Malchow. In 1856 he came to America. After working on the railroad and owning several other farms, he came to Huron about 1885, buying 240 acres in Sec.36. He had been raised on a farm in Germany and decided this was what he wanted to do. Besides general farming, he raised Clydesdale horses. In 1854 he married Mary E. Buhle, who died in 1904. She was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Buhle, both natives of Germany who lived and died there (notes from Biographical Review, 1905)
A. John Henry (1855-1869)
B. Charles (1857-1859)
D. Louis Henry (1864-1946) mar. Mary Elizabeth Wunnenberg in 1893). Born 1861-1944) dtr. Of Henry and Emily Wunnenberg of Benton Twp.
a. Viola Lenora (1896-1965) mar. Albert Poisel and lived in Sec. 33. A. son Charles (1938) lives in Sec. 33
2. John Piermont (1898-1947) lived on home farm in sec. 36.
3. Louis Ivan (1901-1947) lived on home farm in Sec. 36
From: County Living 1835-1976) Huron Township. Des Moines County, Iowa, Bi-Centennial Edition., page 181.
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