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- 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
Sec'y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO.,
Published,Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905
Transcribed for Lyon County by Darlene Jacoby and
Diane Johnson
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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.
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