| ANDREW RAHE is a well known and
wealthy farmer, living in New Wine Township, Dubuque County,
adjoining the village of New Vienna. Our subject was born at
Munster, Westphalia, in the
United Kingdom of Prussia, in May, 1824. His parents both died when
he was but a child, hence
but little can be learned of them. He was taken by relatives to
bring up and passed his boyhood on the farm, receiving only a
limited education. When he attained his majority, in 1845, he set
sail for the New World, and on landing in the United States first
located at Hamilton, Ohio, where he remained until 1847, in the
spring of which year he came to Iowa, and for a time worked on the
mill then being built by Schimmel Bros., near the present site of
New Vienna.
In August, 1848, Mr. Rahe was united in wedlock with Mrs.
Catherine Weekman, a widow, who was
born in Oldenburg, Germany, and came to America with her parents
when a child. In 1843, with her husband, she made the journey from
Ohio to Iowa, making the trip by ox team. Mrs. Rahe has one daughter
by her first marriage, Mary, now the wife of Clarence Buchenstete, a
wealthy farmer in Delaware County, of this state.
Directly after his marriage Mr. Rahe located on the farm where he
has ever since resided. Coming to this county as he did, without
means, he early set about making for himself a competency, and now
aside from the large farm on which he makes his home he owns several
farms in Dubuque and Delaware Counties, being one of the wealthiest
residents of this vicinity. To Mr. and Mrs. Rahe have been born the
following children: Clement, who wedded Mary, daughter of Joseph
Schimmel, and is engaged in farming near Dyersville; Henry, whose
wife died, leaving four children, and who now resides with his
father on the farm; Frank, a farmer of Delaware County, who wedded
Miss Mary Wesell; and Annie, the wife of Theodore Brockmann, a well
known agriculturist of Delaware County. Our subject was brought up
in the Catholic faith, to which he still belongs. He uses his right
of franchise in favor of the Democratic party, and both as a
business man and for his own well known qualities of true worth is
held in the highest respect by one and all. |
Dubuque
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