Woodbury County >> 1890 Index

History of the Counties of Woodbury and Plymouth, Iowa
Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1890-91. 

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Biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN BALL, farmer, Rodney, is a son of James and Diana (Howard) Ball, and is of Scotch descent. He was born in Rock Island, Ill., on April 26, 1862, and has followed farming since he was twenty-five years of age. Mr. Ball is a man of good education, and has taught school until the past five years. He came to Iowa in 1872, and lived with his father on the farm he now owns, until 1889, when he bought it, and now is farming 120 acres. He was married, February 15, 1888, to Phoebe Ann Chapman, and has one child, Laura Effil, a baby of eleven months. Mr. Ball is a member of no particular denomination, but is always ready and willing to support them. Politically he is a republican.

HENRY C. BAPPE, a farmer, now residing on section twenty-seven, Banner township, was born in Shelingstadt, Germany, May 22, 1826, and is a son of Christopher and Margaret Bappe, both deceased. The father was a cooper by trade, and was engaged in that occupation at the time of his death. Both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church. Henry C. was born and reared on a farm, where he received his education. He was but six months old when his father died, and his mother's death occurred when he was ten years of age, but he resided in Germany until twenty-five years of age, when he came to America (after three years' service in the Prussian army) and located in New York. He remained there one year only, when he moved to Michigan, and resided there one year, and thence went to Indiana, remaining one year, and from there came, in 1854, to Cass county, Iowa. He farmed there three years, then moved to Page county and farmed three years, then moved back to Cass, where he farmed twenty years, then came to Woodbury county, in 1883, where he now resides, and purchased 240 acres of land. Politically he is a republican. Mr. Bappe married Sarah J. Porter, a native of Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1857, and to their union have been born eight children: Henry P., William P., Emma J., Ella R., Sarah I., George T., John E. and Julia E. Mrs. Bappe is a member of the Presbyterian church.