Sindt, John

SINDT, KLINDT, KLAHM

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 16:03:54

SINDT, JOHN

John Sindt is a farmer who is well and favorably known in Riverside township, Lyon county, where he has lived many years. Born in Scott county, Iowa, Augst 5, 1854, he is a son of Henry and Bertha Sindt, both natives of Germany, who came to this country about 1848, and made their home in Scott county, where they had their home until about eight years ago, when they retired from farm life to make their residence in Davenport.

Mr. Sindt was reared to manhood and educated on the old home place. When he reached the age of twenty-three, he married to Miss Katie Klindt, January 29, 1877. She was also born in Germany, and came to the United States with her parents when fourteen years of age. Her parents were Henry and Catherine Klindt, native of Holstein, Germany, coming to the United States in 1868, and settling in Scott County, Iowa. There the father died at the age of sixty-seven. They were all farmer-folk, though in the old country Mr. Klindt was a wagon maker. Mr. and Mrs. Sindt have had three children born to them: Caroline O., at home; Hugo, at home until his marriage December 31, 1902, to Agnes Klahm; Theodore J., at home. The children have had the best schools, both at home, in Mankato, Minnesota, and at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

After his marriage Mr. Sindt rented his father's farm for some eight years, and then bought a place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, six miles northeast of Rock Rapids, and here he has made his home to the present time. His first house was a little shack 22 by 16 feet, in which the family lived three years, when it was rebuilt and increased from time to time, as well as greatly changed so that at the present it is a thoroughly modern home, complete and up-to-date in every respect. The barns and other buildings are as complete as those to be found on any farm in the county. Our subject borrowed money with which to build and start farming. He bought another eighty, and being a good business man, has greatly profited by his opportunities, and is now a wealthy man.

Politically, Mr. Sindt cast his first vote for Rutherford B. Hayes, but changed his affiliations at the time General Garfield was a candidate and since then has voted the Democratic ticket. The most of the time he has been here he has served on the school board, being at present treasurer. Other local positions have been filled by him, and he is always actively interested in town and county affairs. The family are all reared in the Lutheran faith. Both husband and wife are bright and progessive people, and have all the modern devices in the home and on the farm with which to facilitate work and make life less a burden.

Source: 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 by Roseanna Zehner, Darlene Jacoby and Diane Johnson