Boone County >> 1902 Index

A Biographical Record of Boone County, Iowa. 
Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1902.

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Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

Hagge, Claus p, 470 submitted by Dean & Tena Schroeder

A successful business career has been that of Claus Hagge and four hundred acres of rich land of Boone County is now in his possession. He is also a memeber of the firm of Hennings & Hagge, grain merchants of Ogden. Through thirty years he has resided in this county and is familiar with the history of the town from the period of its inception. He came to America from Germany, his birth having occurred in the fatherland on the 19th of September, 1847. His parents, Henry and Anna Hagge, were also natives of Germany.

Claus Hagge is indebted to the common school system of his native land for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He remained at home until twenty years of age and then began farming in Yell Township, Boone County, renting a tract of land in that locality. In 1877 he moved to Amaqua Township and, purchasing a tract of land, at once began its further development and improvement. In 1876 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Henson, a daughter of Dietleb Henson of Boone County. Seven children have been born of this marriage, Henry, Elizabeth, Jerry, Alvina, Mary, William, and Wilhelmina.

After his marriage Mr. Hagge took his bride to his farm, where he resided continuously until 1893. During that period he placed his land under a high state of cultivation, his well tilled fields bringing to him golden harvests. He also added many improvements to the place, but at length he decided to retire from active farm life and removed to Ogden, where he entered into business relations with Mr. Hennings, as a memeber of the firm of Hennings & Hagge. They are now well known grain merchants and buy and sell on an extensive scale. They also handle lumber and agricultural implements and their business is increasing yearly.

Mr. Hagge and his wife are devoted members of the German Lutheran Church of Ogden, and he is a Democrat, having continuously supported the party since attaining his majority. Upon that ticket he was elected township trustee of Amaqua Township and served continuously in the office for nine years, while for seven years he was school director. He is now serving as school director in the town of Ogden and is also a member of the city council. His life has been one of industry and enterprise and his prosperity is the merited reward of his own labor. In addition to his business and .....is home in the town he still owns four hundred acres of the rich land of Boone County. All has been acquired through his capable management and diligence and his life should serve as a source of encouragement to others who are forced to enter upon a business career without capital

Hagge, Hans p. 579-80 submitted by Dean & Tena Schroeder

Hans Hagge belongs to one of the old and prominent families of Boone county and has resided within its borders since 1872. As his name indicates, the family is of German lineage and our subject was born in the fatherland on the 1st of December, 1844. He was a young man of twenty-four years when he severed the ties which bound him to that country and crossed the briny deep to the new world. On reaching American shores he at once continued his journey overland to Calumet county, Wisconsin, where he remained for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he went to Clinton county, Iowa, where he was employed on farms for two years, and on the expiration of that period he removed to Dallas county, where he engaged in farming for one year. His nest removal brought him to Boone county, and in 1872 he took up abode upon his present farm in Yell township. This district was evidently such as he sought, for he has never had a desire to change his place of abode since that time. His energies have been given to his farm work, and as the years have passed he has become one of the substantial and respected citizens of the community.

Mr. Hagge was united in marriage to catherine Kuhl, also a native of Germany, born January 20, 1851. Her father, who was a mechanic, died in that country. The home of Mr. and Mrs.. Hagge has been blessed with seven children, as follows: Henry, at home; Annie, the wife of Louis Hasstedt, a resident of Amaqua township, by whom she has two children: Johnie and Menhardt: Maggie, at home; Johnie, who is learning the drug business in Ogden; Willie, Katie and Hans, all at home. In all the work of the farm Mr. Hagge is able assisted by his sons. He now owns six hundred and forty acres of valuable land, which is largely operated by the aid of his boys. He is also extensively engaged in stock-raising, having over seventy head of fine stock upon his place. His land lies in both Yell and Amaqua townships.

In politics Mr. Hagge is a Democrat. He served as road supervisor for some time, was also school director for two terms and was the incumbent of the same office in Des Moines for one term. He and his wife hold membership in the German Lutheran Church of Ogden, in which he is serving as director. In 1896 Mr. and Mrs. Hagge visited the old country, Schleswig-Holstein. Very successful in his business career, he owes his advancement to his own efforts and may truly be called a self-made man. Starting in this world without any capital, he has steadily advanced to a prominent position among the representative farmers of his community. He carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes and his efforts have been so vigorously prosecuted that as the years have gone by he has won a property that is among the most valuable farms of this portion of the state.

Herman Hennings is the senior member of the firm of Hennings & Hagge, grain merchants and dealers in farming implements and lumber in Ogden. Among those who have come from foreign lands to become prominent in business circles in Boone county is this well-known gentleman. His success in his undertakings has been so marked that his methods are of interest to the commercial world. He has based his business principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which govern industry, economy and strict, unswerving integrity. He was born in Germany, May 19, 1851, and is a son of Clause Hennings, a farmer of that land, who spent his entire life in the country of his nativity.

Mr. Hennings of this review was a young man of thirty-two years when he emigrated to America, landing in New York. He made his way direct across the country to Ogden, where he had a sister living and began farming in Amaqua township, where he followed agricultural pursuits for a year. He then came to Ogden and worked on the section of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad for a year and a half. For seven and one-half years he was connected with the grain trade in the employ of I. W. Rice and at length he purchased an interest in an elevator, becoming a member of the firm of Hennings & Hennings. In 1892 the present firm of Hennings & Hagge was formed and has since conducted a successful and growing business. They are dealers in grain, farm implements and lumber and in the various departments of their enterprise they are meeting with success, having a large patronage, which annually returns to them a good income. Mr. Hennings and his partner are also engaged in buying hogs and cattle and dealing in real estate and insurance. They handle all kinds of farm implements and their business is now one of the leading commercial enterprises of the town.

Mr. Hennings was united in marriage in 1878 to Miss Helen Ohlstein, also a native of Germany, and they now have two children, Fredia and Martha. For three years Mr. Hennings has served as a member of the city council of Ogden for Yell township. He has always supported the Democracy, believing firmly in the principles of that party. Truly a self-made man in the best sense of that oft-misused term, he has worked his way steadily upward from a humble position, brooking no obstacles that could be overcome by determination and honorable effort. He stands to-day strong in his success and in his good name and well does he merit representation in this volume.

JACKSON HULL, who follows agricultural pursuits on section 34, Worth township, has been a resident of Boone county for a longer period than almost any of its citizens, the date of his arrival here being the fall of 1848.  He is a native of Schuyler county, Missouri, born April 25, 1841.  His father, George Hull, was born in Virginia, in 1779, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, at the close of which he moved to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he remained for several years, moving finally to Fulton county, Illinois, and thence to Schuyler county, Missouri.  During the Black Hawk and other Indian wars, he commanded a company of the regiment commanded by Colonel Farris.  After the death of his first wife he married Lucy Farris, the sister of his old colonel, and the mother of Jackson Hull, the subject of this sketch.  In 1848 they moved to Boone county, Iowa, where he died in 1855, his wife having died in 1852.
 
After the death of his father, Jackson Hull resided with his older brother, Jesse Hull, until he was sixteen years of age, when he began earning his own living by working as a farm hand by the month. He then went to Colorado, in the spring of 1860, making his way to Denver and Pikes Peak where he engaged in prospecting for a time.  Subsequently he was employed in a quartz mill in Colorado, spending about eighteen months in that state, after which he returned to his home in Iowa.  At the time of the Civil war his loyalty to the Union was manifested by his enlistment, in December, 1861, at which time he joined the boys in blue of Company D, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry.  The regiment went south, was attached to the Army of the Tennessee and participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Iuka, Black River Bridge, the siege of Vicksburg and the capture of that Confederate stronghold.  Mr. Hull then veteranized and was granted a furlough of thirty days, at the end of which time he rejoined the army at Clifton, Kentucky, and participated in the Atlanta campaign, including many noted battles.  He was taken prisoner at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and was then sent to Andersonville, where he was incarcerated for two months when he was exchanged and rejoined the army.  He went with Sherman on his celebrated march to the sea and participated in all of the engagements of that campaign, then marched through to Richmond and on to Washington, where he participated in the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere - the "grand review" - a most fitting close of the brilliant victory of the northern army.  He was then sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until mustered out.  Returning to Iowa he was honorably discharged at Davenport, in July, 1863. He was only twenty years of age when he enlisted, but his loyalty and valor were equal to that of many an older soldier and his military record is a most creditable one.
 
During the summer following his return to Boone county, Mr. Hull rented land and engaged in farming.  As soon as possible he purchased a tract comprising forty acres in Douglas township.  Clearing away the timber and brush he built a home and with characteristic energy began the improvement of the farm upon which he lived for several years when he sold the property and purchased a part of the farm upon which he now resides, becoming the owner of thirty-five acres.  Taking up his abode here he has each season since cultivated the fields and year by year has successfully carried on farming until he is now one of the substantial agriculturist of the community, having one hundred and forty-five acres of rich land which brings him splendid harvests.  He has a good residence upon the place, substantial improvements, barns, a bearing orchard and beautiful evergreen trees which adorn the lawn and shade the home.  No equipments of a model farm are lacking.  He has purchased improved machinery to facilitate the work of the fields and he also raises a good grade of stock, this branch of his business likewise proving profitable.
 
Throughout the greater part of his business career Mr. Hull has enjoyed the companionship and assistance of a most estimable lady, who in her maidenhood was Mary J. Payne, and whom he made his wife on the 17th of March, 1867.  She is a native of Indiana and a daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Payne.  Benjamin Payne died during the early girlhood of Mrs. Hull. She was largely reared in Boone county, and has become the mother of three children: Ida, now the wife of P. H. Zenar, a resident farmer of Worth township, formerly a telegraph operator on the Northwestern Railroad; Rebecca May, who was married to B. F. Hull and died at the age of twenty-one years; and Frank, who is married and assists in the operation of the home farm.
 
In early life Mr. Hull was a Democrat but in 1864 he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. He endorsed the Democracy after the war, but of recent years has been a Prohibition-Republican.  He was elected and served as township trustee, filling the position for six years and also has been a member of the school board, doing everything in his power to advance the cause of education in this locality.  He and his wife belong to the Christian church known as the Meadow Grove church, and Mr. Hull is serving as one of its elders and as a trustee.  He was formerly a Master Mason, but is now dimitted from the lodge.  Fifty-four years have passed since he came to Boone county.  He is one of the few remaining early settlers who have witnessed the development of this portion of the state through a half century.  There were no railroads when he came and few wagon roads.  The greater portion of the land was still in possession of the government and upon the prairies grew the native grasses or timber.  He has taken a just pride in what has been accomplished in the way of improvement and development here and has borne his part in the work of progress.  His efforts have not been without result and as the years have been added to the cycle of eternity, Jackson Hull has been numbered among the valued and representative men of his county.