BONNSTETTER, MARTIN

BONNSTETTER, SCHALLER, FAULKNER

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Date: 6/3/2005 at 11:35:50

Biography reproduced from page 452 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Martin Bonnstetter was born Feb. 11, 1832, in Baden. In 1852 he came to America, landing at New Orleans, and going from there to St. Louis, where he worked for two years at his trade, that of shoemaker, then moved to Waterloo, Monroe Co., Ill., where he still carried on his shoe-making ten years. He next went to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and worked at his trade eight years. In 1874 he came to Kossuth county, and settled on section 22, taking as a homestead, eighty acres, and afterwards buying forty acres. He was married in December, 1873, to Elizabeth Schaller, of Kossuth county, by birth an Austrian. They have no children, but Mary Faulkner lives with them. In politics he is a democrat, and is a member of the Catholic Church.