Notes:

Supposedly, he was a farmer and coming to the United States in 1866, located in Illinois, later making a home in Grundy County, Iowa.

Family/Spouse: Teelke Hanssen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antje married Jan Aeissen Haan on 29 Aug 1819 in Groothusen, Germany. Jan died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Berend Meener Meinde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aeisse married Aaltje Janssen-Bruuns on 20 Mar 1853 in Hamswehrum, Hannover, Germany. Aaltje (daughter of Jan Berends Bruuns and Aafke Nankes Hinderks Terviel) was born on 5 Jan 1825 in Germany; died on 10 May 1899 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geert Jansen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• : 1875

Jan married Ella Buus in 1858. Ella was born on 7 Dec 1835 in Ostfriesland, Germany; died on 25 Feb 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Remained in Germany
Ali Heinks stayed with him after her graduation-Becky Van Dyke

Notes:

When arrived at Seward, IL, it was a record 10 degrees below. His sister-in-law, Gertrude (Peters) Iben and her husband, Richard, immigrated in 1893. Gertrude had made a return trip to Germany and may have persuaded John E. Haan to come to America with his children after his wife's death.

Jan married Antje Peters on 8 Dec 1877. Antje was born on 27 Nov 1855 in Wybelsum, Germany; died on 30 May 1896 in Pilsum, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly born in 1867 as tombstone states.

John Haan changed his name to DeHaan due to mail delivery confusion. The 1910 shows another John Haan family a few houses down, likely the cause of the confusion.

From www.alaska.net/~dsewell/:

According to a article that I have called "A Short Survey of Friesian History by Bernard J. Fridsma, Sr.", the first recording of the Friesians was about 1,000 years ago when they were living on the coast of the North Sea between the Ems and Rhine Rivers. Where they came from is pretty foggy but that they started reclaiming the muddy land from the sea is evident. Eventually the country called Friesia covered the whole coast of what is now The Netherlands and Germany. For centuries they fought off invaders. Unfortunately when they weren't fighting with others they fought with each other over control. (Sound familiar?) Finally, after a series of name changes and being divided and re-divided between 1798 and 1810 under Napoleon, Friesia lost it's ancient name. It now remains only in the province (state?) of Friesia in the north west corner of The Netherlands and in our beloved Ostfriesland (East Friesia) in Germany.


IN THE USA
From 1850 to 1900 there was a mass immigration from this the Ostfriesland area of Germany due to war and wide spread hunger. It was a chance for the common man to improve his families lot in life. Most of this group settled in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Wisconsin. In some of the German villages over half of the population departed. The port of entry for a large percentage of the immigrants was New Orleans. They then traveled up the Mississippi River to the Heartland of America.

For the settlement of the farm country of Illinois timing was everything. Much of this area was sparsely settled because the land was wet, heavy black gumbo, covered with deep rooted prairie grass. It was impossible to plow without stopping every few feet to clean the blade. Then the curved "self cleaning" plow was invented and perforated tile was installed around the fields and the land rush was on. A far seeing man named Scully bought a huge portion of the land and paid the fare for families from his native land to come and be tenant farmers. Of course many paid their own way and worked in other jobs.

This was an industrious group and they did well in their new land. For many years they kept their old customs and spoke Low German so named for the low, flat terrain of their native land, reclaimed from the North Sea. Then came WW1 and to be German was shameful in America. Everyone was anxious to appear patriotic so much of our heritage was lost. The few that appeared too loyal to Germany had their houses and fences painted yellow by "real Americans" in the middle of the night. My grandfather was one of them but his reaction was not of fear but of defiance (or stubbornness, depending on how you look at it). "If a yellow house means I'm German then I will show that I'm proud of it." he said (in German, of course). He painted the rest of the house yellow and that is the color it stayed until he died.

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John took the surname "DeHaan" when he arrive at Rock Rapids, IA. The story was passed down that this was done due to mail delivery problems with another John Haan family down the road. The census data confirms this was his first cousin married to Bessie Rieman.

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From "In and Around George" 1871-1912
John De Haan -- and his wife lived here from 1890 (perhaps earlier) until 1895. At. that time they lived near Lyon County First Presbyterian Church and near Rev. Henry Wortman's home. The children remember how often the Wortman children would stay with them when their parents were busy. In 1895 they moved to Riverside Township, and later they returned to George, living at 107 West Indiana Avenue. Their children were John (married Mabel Schlotfeldt); Ella (Mrs. Harm Meester); Agnes (Mrs. Harry Cone); Helen (Mrs. Charley Busch); Anna (Mrs. Charley Harms); and Elizabeth (Mrs. Elmer Williams).

On the picture with Mr. and Mrs. De Haan is their grandson Win Harms.

Johann married Hilka Garrels on 18 Aug 1887 in Grundy Center, IA. Hilka (daughter of Garrett F Garrels and Antje Klingenberg) was born on 23 Jun 1867 in Germany (Most Likely Ostfriesland); died on 6 Jul 1937; was buried in Colfax Center Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Grundy, IA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

twin to Antje

Family/Spouse: Antonia Harms. Antonia died in 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antje married Berend Lambert Brommer, Sr. on 17 Jul 1884 in Grundy Center, IA. Berend (son of Lambertus Eissen Brommer and Mettje Berends Voss) was born on 24 Apr 1845 in Wybelsum, Germany; died on 29 Mar 1929 in Midland, Lyon County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Died At Age 26

Notes:

Died:
Died at an early age, possibly 19.

Lena married Henry Wolf on 24 Nov 1886. Henry died in 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Slight. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ole Niehuis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• : 1875; Immigrated when 5 years old with parents

Notes:

BIOGRAPHIES: G thru H; Lyon County, Iowa
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Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of
Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer
Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach
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Transcribed for Lyon County by Darlene Jacoby and
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HAAN, JOHN
John Haan, whose home and farm are in Riverside
Township, Lyon County, is still in his early manhood,
and his industry, economical habits and upright life,
are a credit to his race and blood. He was born
January 16, 1870, in Javerland, Germany, and the first
five years of his life were spent in his native land,
when his parents removed to this country, making
indeed a vast change in the lives of their posterity,
as well as greatly modifying their own condition.
Germany is a land of liberty and education and law,
but it has no such opportunity for ambitious manhood
as Lyon County has presented in the closing years of
the century.

The Haans crossed the ocean in a British liner, and
effected a location in Grundy County, Iowa, where
young John received considerable schooling in the
neighboring district school. After completing his
education he went to work on his father's farm, and
for two years was employed as a farm laborer. In 1891
he became engaged in farming for himself in Pleasant
Valley Township, Grundy County, and was married
February 24, 1892, to Miss Bessie, daughter of Hie and
Engel Rieman. He spent 1894 and 1895 farming in Butler
County, and in December, 1894, bought a tract of land
in Lyon County, described as follows: the north half
of the northeast quarter of section 21, and also the
north half of the northeast quarter of section 22,
range 45, township 100. In January, 1896, he came to
Lyon and settled on this land, and in August, 1898,
bought more land, as follows: the south half of the
northeast quarter of section 21, and the south half of
the northwest quarter of section 22, of the same range
and township. He is also the proprietor of a farm of
two hundred and forty acres in Noble County,
Minnesota, owning in all an amount of land that would
have made him an aristocrat in the old country, but
which here simply lifts him out of poverty, and gives
him an enduring competency.

To Mr. and Mrs. John Haan have come the following
children: Alfred, born January 13, 1893; John,
September 5, 1894; Henry, February; 20, 1896; Ella,
March 8, 1898; William McKinley, November 25, 1899;
Bertha, December 5, 1901; and an infant, born August
13, 1904. The father of John Haan was born October 12,
1825, in East Friesland, where he was reared to farm
life, and where he married Miss Ella Buus in 1858.
They had children as follows: Anna, who died when
twenty-six years old; Henrietta, who lived to be
nineteen years old; Lena; Hannah; Delia; John; Henry,
who died in 1875, while still an infant. The
grandfather of John Haan was born in Germany, and
served in the French Wars. He died in 1835. The
grandmother of John Haan died in 1875. She was born in
East Friesland, and her father also in East Friesland.
He was a farmer and coming to the United States in
1866, located in Illinois, later making a home in
Grundy County, Iowa.

Ella Buus, the mother of John Haan, was born in East
Friesland December 7, 1835, and died February 25,
1880.

Hie Rieman was always a farmer, born in East
Friesland, Germany, and came to the United states in
1868, and located in Illinois and married there; went
from there to Grundy County, stayed there ten years,
and then moved to Butler County, where he still lives
in his sixty-seventh year. His wife died June 30,
1904.

John married Bessie Rieman on 24 Feb 1892. Bessie (daughter of Hie Riema and Engel) was born on 15 Oct 1873 in Garfield, IA; died on 13 May 1948; was buried in Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]