1914
Delaware Co., IA History pgs. 72-73
Fred Gienapp, who has been
identified with agricultural pursuits in Delaware county for more than a
quarter of a century, is now the owner of four hundred and twenty-eight acres
of productive land on section 10,
Richland township. His birth occurred in
Fred
Gienapp spent the first twenty-five years of his life in the land of his
nativity and attended the common schools in pursuit of an education. In 1888,
desiring to test the truth of the many favorable reports which had
reached him concerning the advantages of the new world, he crossed the Atlantic
to the United States and made his way direct to Delaware county, Iowa. Here he
was employed by the month by Ben Sheldon for three years and subsequently
cultivated a rented farm for nine years. On the expiration of that period he
purchased a tract of land west of
While still
a resident of Germany, Mr. Gienapp was united in marriage to Miss Ida Mussehl,
a native of the fatherland, by whom he had eleven children, as follows: Bertha,
who is the wife of A. R. Schroeder, of Richland township; Charles F., who
assists his father in the operation of the home farm; Mary, the wife of Fred
Theel of Richland township; Martha, at home; Otto A.; Elsie, at home; Rudolph;
Walter; and three who are deceased.
Mr. Gienapp gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while his
religious faith is that of the German Lutheran church, to which his wife and
children also belong. During the years of his residence here he has gained a
high place in both business and social circles and well deserves mention as one
of