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History of the Counties of Woodbury and Plymouth,
Iowa P Biographies submitted by Dick Barton. William Pecks, farmer, P. O. Le Mars, is one of the pioneer residents of Grant township, and was born May 5, 1834, at Hanover, Germany. He is a son of Henry and Tillie Pecks of the same place. He attended the public schools until about fourteen years of age, when he began to work on a farm in his neighborhood. In June, 1857, he started for America, going, upon his arrival, to Lee county, Ill., where he was employed as a farm hand until 1862. He then enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth Illinois volunteers, and served three years, when he received his discharge and returned to Lee county. In a short time, however, he removed to Jones county, Iowa, where he resided until 1870, when he bought eighty acres of land in section thirty-two, Grant township, Plymouth county, where he has since carried on general farming. He now owns 240 acres in that vicinity. Mr. Pecks married Annie Madde, in 1866, and they are the parents of eight children: Matilda, Minnie, Henry, Frederick, Bennett, Herd, Annie and William. In politics he is a democrat, and is a member of the German Lutheran church. |