Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ewoldt on their wedding day
HUGO EWOLDT FAMILY
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ewoldt were married January 19, 1927, in the Methodist parsonage in Denison.
Mrs. Ewoldt was the former Florence Georgius, daughter of Edward and Pauline Lamp Georgius. She assisted her parents at home until her marriage.
Hugo was the youngest of 10 children born to Henry and Sophie Schroeder Ewoldt.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewoldt began farming on the farm southwest of Aspinwall where Mrs. Ewoldt was born. From there, they moved west of Manning to an Opperman farm. After living there a number of years, they purchased a farm southwest of Aspinwall where they farmed 46 years.
Their children are Stanley, who farms 1/2 mile west and 1 mile south of Aspinwall, and Don, Manilla, who is in the trucking business. Grandchildren are Kathleen, Tom, Annette, LuAnn, and Lynn, children of Don and his wife, the former Verna Bachman.
The Ewoldts are now retired and live in Manilla.
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A MISER'S DEED: The town of Franklin, Kentucky, is greatly excited over a
singular act of William Hilton, a wealthy and miserly merchant of the city. He
has been ailing. He ordered his Negro attendant to take a nail keg which was in
the room and place it on the fire, telling him it contained some papers he wished destroyed.
Soon after a friend came in and saw what looked like smoldering remains of a mass, and found it was a large bundle of greenback government four per cent bonds.
Hilton was separated from his wife and he had trouble with
his son, who is rather profligate. It seems like about $30,000 was burned.
Manning Monitor, June 27, 1890
CATHERINE BOYENS FARLEY
Catherine (Boyens) Farley was born in Aspinwall August 4, 1891, to Andrew and
Elizabeth Boyens. Andrew farmed in the Aspinwall area and managed the Cream
Station for many years. Catherine was one of nine children, six girls and three
boys, four of whom are still living in Iowa. They are Margaret Schroeder,
Manning; Emma Wiese, Manilla; Elsie Wiese, Manilla; and Elizabeth Dammann,
Manning. Deceased are Harry, Fred, Dora Boyens Soll, and Andrew.
Catherine presently lives at the Manilla Manor nursing home in Manilla. She was married to Everett Farley and they resided in the Aspinwall and Manilla areas until about 1923, when they moved to Perry. Catherine and Everett had four children, Buelah Baker, Whiting; Gertrude (Mrs. Hugo "Shorty") Dammann, Manning; Willard Farley, Hacienda Heights, California; and Alice Stout, Perry. She also has 20 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Everett passed away in 1949.
She wishes to express her "Good wishes and congratulations to the town which, in its infancy when she was born into the community, has survived to celebrate such a glorious occasion as a Centennial."
FRED FRIEDRICHSEN FAMILY
Augusta Thomssen lived in a home in Aspinwall when she was a child where the
new Community Building now stands. She was a sister to Claus Thomssen. Augusta
married Fred Friedrichsen and they lived southeast of Manning many years. They
had 13 children: Freddie died in infancy; Emma (Mrs. Hans Beese), Ames; Laura
(Mrs. Ed Lamp), Coon Rapids; Eddie, deceased; Bertha (Mrs. John Joens), Council
Bluffs; Ella (Mrs. Fred Stuart), Audubon; Ferd, Deceased; Henry, deceased; Selma (Mrs. William Hacker),
Templeton; Effie (Mrs. Nelson Christiansen), Gray; Grant, deceased; Harry, deceased; and Ray, Denison.
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RAYMOND FRIEDRICHSEN FAMILY
Raymond, son of Fred Friedrichsen, and Eunice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Ranniger, were married June 30, 1937, in Manning.
They are the parents of two daughters. Mardella, Mrs. Melvin
Newman, lives in New Port Beach, California, with sons Monte, Mike and Mark.
Marcia is married to Gaylord Moeller, and they farm seven miles west of Denison.
Ray and Eunice now live in Denison.
ALBERT GENZEN
The Albert Genzen family began in Stralsund, Germany. Albert migrated to America at the age of seven. True to
German heritage, Albert and Bertha Grimm observed the Christmas season with their
marriage in Manning by Rev. J.M. Ansorge December 1, 1909.
The Christmas festivities became the foundation for a close Christian family. The Christmas season became as special to their nine children and their families as it had always been to Albert and Bertha.
Their son Lester married Irene Meggers. Their children are Phyllis Denker, Daryl, Joycelyn Koepke, Beverly Beckman, and Royce.
Elmer died at the age of two.
Virgil married Florence Hinz, and their children are Larry and Darlene Vollstedt.
Odessa, Mrs. Delbert Vinke, has four children, Shirley Schwieso, Clifford, Allen, and Sandra Lisec.
Ivan married Irene Schultz. Their children are William (Bill), Deborah Bass, and Denise Cadwell.
Arthur died at the age of 16.
LaVonne, Mrs. Louie Gehlsen, has two daughters, Lanice Meier and LouAnn Deas.
Lucille, Mrs. Kenneth Pfannkuch, has four children, Bonnie Young, Kevin, Steven, and Kimberly.
Robert married Donna Tarvin of Bloomington, Illinois, and they have three children, Sharon Barbour, Julie, and "Little Ace" Darren to help carry on the Genzen name.
There are also 52 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson as of 1980.
Albert and Bertha began their married life working at the Fairmont Dairy in Haverhill, Iowa. After three years they began farming, moving back to the Manning area in 1915, where they continued farming until Albert's death December 11, 1947.
Bertha moved to Manning, living at 621 Fifth Street until 1961. She spent several years living with her children; then moved into the Terrace Apartments, where she resided until her death January 7, 1977.
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LESTER GENZEN FAMILY
Lester Genzen was born in Haverhill, Iowa, April 11, 1910, to Albert and Bertha
(Grimm) Genzen. After spending several years there, the family moved to the Manning vicinity.
Irene Meggers was born 1/2 mile north of Westside in Carroll County, to Frank and Agnes (Soll) Meggers, November 7, 1912.
Lester and Irene were married October 25, 1933, by Pastor J.M. Ansorge in the Lutheran Church in Manning. They farmed for two years 5 1/2 miles north of Manning. In 1946 they moved to the present farm owned by the late Alfred Kuhl.
Lester and Irene were confirmed in the Lutheran church, being members since 1927; their children were all baptized and confirmed in the same faith. Lester and his children all graduated from Manning High School.
Their children are: Phyllis (Mrs. Virgil Denker), Denison; Daryl, who served in the Army from 1958 to 1960, married Diane Dalgety, and is co-owner of Thrifty Food Inc., Manning; Joycelyn (Mrs. Roger Koepke), residing in St. Louis, Missouri; Beverly (Mrs. Larry Beckman), living in Odebolt; and Royce, who spent four years in the Navy, 1957 to 1961, married Nancy Sparks and resides in Montclair, California.
Grandchildren are Rhonda (Denker) Cool, Deanna (Denker) Lownes, Linda (Denker) Mullenger, Lori and Lisa Denker at home; Dana, David and Dean Genzen; Stephanie, Pamela, Jodi and Douglas Koepke; Vicki Beckman; Kimberly (Beckman) Veit; Tracy and Royce Genzen Jr. There are also two great-grandchildren.
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There were never 20 taverns in Aspinwall. That's a ridiculous story!
Ida (Roggendorf) Dethlefs
EDWARD GEORGIUS FAMILY
Edward Georgius was born July 19, 1880, to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Georgius. During
his youth he was a farmhand. He was married to Pauline Lamp, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ferdinand Lamp. Pauline was born March 17, 1882.
During their entire married life they were farmers, first living southwest of Aspinwall and later moving two miles north.
They had three children, Florence (Mrs. Hugo Ewoldt), Roy, and another son who died
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in infancy. Florence presently lives in Manilla. Roy is deceased.
Grandchildren are Stanley and Don Ewoldt, Roger and Robert Georgius and Dorothy Conlin.
Mrs. Georgius passed away May 10, 1965, and Mr. Georgius passed away May 11, 1975. Both were buried on May 14, 10 years apart, with burial in the Iowa township Cemetery.
DAVID LEE GRUNDMEIER
David Lee Grundmeier was born March 17, 1935, in Carroll, son of Marcellus and
Evelyn Frahm Grundmeier. He attended country schools in Carroll County and
graduated from Manning High School in 1953. After graduation, he worked at
Priebe and Sons in Manning until entering the U.S. Army in 1957.
February 14, 1960, David was married to Beverly Lerssen at the Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. Beverly, daughter of Arthur and Malinda Erps Lerssen, lived at the Manning Hotel which her folks owned and operated for 22 years. After graduation from Manning High School in 1957, Bev worked at the First National Bank from June, 1957, until March, 1975.
Dave and Bev lived in Aspinwall after they were first married until July, 1966, when they moved to 70 April Street in Manning, where they are still residing. Dave and Bev have four children: Ivy Lynn, born October 12, 1961; Patrick David, born September 17, 1966; Angela Sue, born May 17, 1971; and Jill Marie, born May 13, 1975.
Dave worked with his father at the Grundmeier Garage from 1960 to 1964. He then started working for the Manning Creamery Company and continued on there after Wells Dairy bought the company. In February, 1981, he went back to work at the Grundmeier Garage in Aspinwall where he is still working now with his father, who is the operator of the garage.
JOEL GRUNDMEIER FAMILY
Joel Leonard, son of Marcellus and Evelyn (Frahm) Grundmeier, was born February
6, 1941 at Carroll. He attended the Manning schools and graduated with the
class of 1959. After graduation he worked for Griffin Construction of Lake
View. In 1961, Joel entered the U.S. Marine Corps and served in Vietnam from
1964 to 1965. After his military service he worked for the Aspinwall Co-op and
then became manager of the American Cyanamid Company at Manilla.
August 24, 1968, Joel was married to Alice Tessman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tessman of Audubon. In 1970, he was transferred to the American Cyanamid Company in Lohrville, and in 1971, Joel became Northwest Iowa Area Representative for the Zep Manufacturing Company of Atlanta, Georgia.
At present, Joel and Alice live in Lakeside with their children, Jennifer Lyn, born March 13, 1978, and John Russell, born May 12, 1980.
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Although Emil Ehrichs was one of the first to start selling cars in this area,
his big love was motorcycles, and he usually had a cycle instead of a car. My
husband Louie had probably the first car in town; he bought it from his
brother's garage in 1914 after his team of horses was killed in a train
accident.
Clara Ehrichs
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Our folks always told us that Aspinwall was older than Manning.
Henry Schroeder and Clarence Stammer
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Sal was mayor of Aspinwall from 1963 to 1978. In the town election held in November of 1981, Sal was again elected to be the 1982 Mayor of Aspinwall. Sal continues to work at the garage with his son David, who joined him in February of 1981.
One of Sal's favorite hobbies is dancing, and it isn't unusual to see him "twirling" around the dance floor at all the dances. His other hobbies include fishing and playing pool with his friends at the Aspinwall Tap.
MARCELLUS E. (SAL) GRUNDMEIER
Marcellus Ewald, son of Ewald and Freda (Koepke) Grundmeier, was born June 15, 1907, on the family farm near
Halbur, in Carroll County. He attended the rural schools up to the eighth
grade. As a young man, he helped on the family farm and also worked for other
farmers in the area. April 8, 1931, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Mary
Margaret Frahm at the Zion Lutheran Church in Arcadia.
Evelyn Frahm was born June 10, 1911, to George and Emma (Oeser) Frahm, who were residing on a farm in Crawford County. She attended country schools, and graduated from Westside High School in 1929. After graduation she was a teacher in rural schools in that area.
After their marriage, Sal and Evelyn farmed for a few years and then, when Sal went to work for Reisberg Brother's Garage in Halbur, they moved to Arcadia. In 1947, John Struve, looking for a mechanic to work in his garage in Manning, approached Sal and offered him the job. He sent Sal to the Kaiser-Frazer School in Detroit, Michigan, to learn more of the trade, and in 1947, Sal moved his family to Manning. Sal worked for the Struve Motor Garage for 10 years. In the summer of 1957, Sal had the opportunity to go into business for himself in Aspinwall; July 1, 1957, the former Emil Ehrichs Garage became the Sal Grundmeier Garage. The family moved into the former Louis Schroeder home that once housed such businesses as a creamery, a general store, a hardware store and a post office.
May 20, 1966, Evelyn passed away and Sal continued to live in the big house. In June of 1970, he purchased the former Henry Jansen home and moved there.
Sal and Evelyn are the parents of six children: Sally Joan (Mrs. Ed Reiter); David Lee; Peggy Jeanine (Mrs. Ron Ellsworth); Joel Leonard; Susan Carol (Mrs. Ron Schilling); and Mark Christian. Sal has 19 grandchildren and one great-grandson.
MARK GRUNDMEIER FAMILY
Mark Christian Grundmeier was born August 17, 1953, at the Manning General
Hospital. The son of Marcellus E. and Evelyn Frahm Grundmeier, he joined three
sisters and two brothers at home. When Mark was four years old the family moved
to Aspinwall, and a year later Mark attended
kindergarten in the Aspinwall School. This was the last year that school would
be held in the old building, and a year later, Mark and the other students in
Aspinwall attended the Manilla school system. Mark graduated from Manilla High School in May of 1971.
The next fall he was enrolled at Iowa State University in Ames, majoring in Computer Science. In the summers, Mark came back to Aspinwall and worked for various farmers, baling hay and doing other odd jobs to earn money for the next school year. In his junior year of college he changed his major to Fisheries and Wildlife Biology. Two summers later he worked for the Iowa Conservation Commission on the Mississippi River; he was based at the Guttenburg Hatchery. The next fall Mark graduated from Iowa State and went in search of his first real job. For the next year and a half he worked on the Allen Nissen farm north of As
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pinwall.
Finally, in 1977, he landed his first job in the field of his studies from Iowa
State. He went to work as a Conservation Technician for the Central Platte
Natural Resources District out of Grand Island, Nebraska.
In October, 1977, Mark was contacted by the manager of the Farm Service Co-op in Manilla. They were looking for someone to fill the position of a management trainee. Mark, wishing to be nearer his home town, accepted the position. In August, 1978, the manager of the Manilla Co-op left his job, and September 1, Mark was made Assistant Manager and reported to the manager of the Denison branch. September 1, 1979, he was promoted to Area Manager of the Manilla branch of Farm Service Co-op, the position he still holds today.
Mark was married to Jerri Lynn Jepsen, daughter of Elizabeth and the late Fred Jepsen, January 14, 1978. Jerri was born March 11, 1955, at Denison. She graduated from the Charter Oak-Ute High School in 1973.
In April, 1979, Mark and Jerri purchased a home in Manilla, and February 4, 1981, they became the proud parents of a son they named Craig Christian.
HENRY AND DORATHEA GUTH
Henry and Dorathea (Wieck) Guth lived on a farm 1/2 mile west and 1/2 mile north of Aspinwall, where Frank
Kasparbauer now lives. Dora Wieck was born in 1875 in Schleswig-Holstein, a province in north Germany then
under Danish rule. Her father, Jacob Wieck was an officer
in the Danish army. Disliking this and horse meat rations, he took his family
to Clinton and Davenport, Iowa, the destination and disbursement center for
immigrants from the German lowlands and the Low German speaking people.
Henry was born in Iowa in 1869, the son of a Civil War army captain, whose father, Dr. Guth, received permission from the King of Denmark to migrate to the United States. Henry's father traded his livery stable for the homestead which became the Guth Estate. His mother managed and rented the homestead to the Wieck family, who broke the prairie sod. She had lost her husband in the Colorado Gold Rush.
Henry, 22, married Dora, 16. They purchased the farm and 10 children were born to this union: Henry, Julius, Lora, Alma, Anne, Raymond, Albert, Alice, Florence and Mabel. All attended the Aspinwall School. Henry, Sr. died in 1910; Dora stayed on the farm with the children, aged nine months to 17 years. Lora died at the age of 20 and her son Donald was adopted by his grandmother Dora; he has been listed in ''Who's Who." Henry Jr. received the Croix de Guerre in World War I. Alice, Florence and Mabel taught in the Crawford County schools.
Dora passed away in 1968 at 93 years of age. Henry, married to Angeline Kuhnes, lives at Wilsall, Montana; Julius, deceased, was married to Elva Axland; Lora, deceased, was married to T.R. McCann; Alma, deceased, was married to Edward J. Ewoldt; Anne, deceased, was married to Bob Eickelkamp; Raymond is married to Florence Baker; Albert, married to Leona Petersen lives at Audubon; Alice, deceased, was married to Joe Lamp; Florence, married to Carl Wegner, lives at Wilsall, Montana; Mabel, whose husband Oliver Ohde is deceased, lives in Spokane, Washington; and Donald is married to Josephine Lindsey.
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The town of Aspinwall, with about 125 residents, is on
the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, and is an important farm distribution center.
The town's governing group is the city council headed by Claudius Hansen, who
operates the county road maintainer. Other members are Marvin Linde, garage
worker; Louie Ehrichs, corn sheller; and Robert Wailes. The city clerk is
Edward Hinners, truck driver. City treasurer is Hans Clausen, retired railroad
worker. There is one vacancy on the council at present.
Citizens of Aspinwall are not many but they keep busy. Ever since the town was
laid out in 1881, at the time the railroad was built through the valley, this
has been the central shopping place for a wide, fertile area.
The Denison Bulletin, October 20, 1950
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Harry Hayes, 14-year-old son of S. Hayes of Grundy Center, was hunting near the
home of his uncle J.H. Hayes in Washington Township, when he was bit by a
rattlesnake. Harry was able to walk a mile home with a heavy gun and is now
doing fine.
Denison Newspaper, August 13, 1886