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HARMON JOHANAS KLEMME
1854 - 1926
PERSONAL HISTORY:
- Born: 7 Feb 1854 - near
Brookfield, Franklin County, Indiana
- Son of: Henry Klemme and Anna
Gessell, married 12 Apr 1846
- Moved: 1862 - with his parents and
12 siblings to Winneshiek County, Iowa
- Farm property: 23 Aug 1876 - 160
Acres purchased in Section 31, Ell Township, Hancock County, Iowa
- Farm house built: 1878, Section
31, Ell Township, Hancock County, Iowa
- Married: 10 Feb 1880 to Effie Mary
Hoyt at Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa
- Child born: 7 Sep 1881 - Jessie
Klemme, in Klemme farm home located in Ell Township, Hancock County
- Moved: Nov 1881 - to Belmond,
Wright County, Iowa
- Child born: 6 Jan 1884 - Raymond
Hoyt Klemme, at Belmond, Wright County, Iowa
- Child born: 11 Aug 1892 - Ruth
Klemme, at Belmond, Wright County, Iowa
- Child born: 12 Oct 1894 - Glen
Harmon Klemme, at Belmond, Wright County, Iowa
- Moved: 1921 - to Sierra Madre,
California
- Died: 23 Aug 1926 - at Mason City,
Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
- Buried: Mountain View Cemetery,
Pasadena, California
BUSINESS:
- Coal and Lumber - Belmond, Wright
County, Iowa
- Coal and Lumber - Kanawha, Hancock
County, Iowa
- Coal and Lumber - Swaledale, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa
- Coal and Lumber - Meservey, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa
- Cement Tile Factory - Belmond, Wright
County, Iowa
- Furniture - Belmond, Wright County, Iowa
POSITIONS:
- State Bank of Belmond - President
- Farmers Savings Bank of Meservey -
President
- American Life Insurance Company; Des Moines,
Iowa - President for 9 years
- Iowa Packing Company - Director
- City of Belmond - Mayor, 1894-1895
- City of Belmond - Councilman
- City of Belmond - School board member
- Methodist Episcopal Church, Belmond -
Trustee
- Methodist Episcopal Church, Belmond -
Steward
MEMORIALIZED in his obituary:
Mr. Klemme was a man of vision, a builder who laid his
foundation strong and sure in the various avenues of life. The results of
his keen and progressive spirit and his influence on community life stand as a
monument to his memory.
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