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Fred Rossow is
the owner of an excellent farm embracing one hundred and twenty
acres on section 14, Coffins Grove township, and in the conduct
of his agricultural interests has won a gratifying measure of
prosperity. His birth occurred in Ohio on the 23d of September,
1871, his parents being August and Maria (Buelow) Rossow of whom
more extended mention is made on another page of this work in
connection with the sketch of William H. Rossow, a brother of our
subject.
Fred Rossow, who came to this county with his parents
when ten years of age, attended the common schools in the
acquirement of an education and remained at home until he had
attained his majority. Subsequently he cultivated a rented farm
for four years and on the expiration of that period purchased a
tract of one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 14,
Coffins Grove township, the operation of which has claimed his
attention continuously to the present time. He has erected
substantial and commodious buildings on the place and has
improved the same until it is now a model and modern farming
property. His undertakings as an agriculturist have been attended
with a well merited measure of success, and he may truly be
called a self-made man, owing his present prosperity entirely to
his own industry and enterprise.
On the 7th of June, 1896, Mr. Rossow was united in
marriage to Miss Olive Stone, a native of Clayton county, Iowa,
and a daughter of Otis and Anna (Allaway) Stone, both of whom are
natives of Pennsylvania and came to Iowa with their respective
parents. They survive and make their home in this county. To them
were born five children, as follows: Ida, who is the wife of
Alfred Brink and resides in South Dakota; Eva, who gave her hand
in marriage to Joseph Baluff of Clayton county, Iowa; Mrs. Olive
Rossow; Ethel, the wife of Bert Bowers of Delaware county, Iowa;
and Alice, who is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Rossow have four
children, namely: Elsie May, born May 2, 1897, who is a
high-school student; Gladys Hazel, whose birth occurred July 14,
1899, and who is also attending high school; Ruth Alice, whose
natal day was March 6, 1901; and Howard A., born September 3,
1904. The parents fully realize the advantages of education and
are giving their children all opportunities along this line.
Mr. Rossow give his political allegiance to the
republican party and has held the office of school director. He
belongs to the Grange and is also a devoted and consistent member
of the Lutheran church, with which his wife is likewise
identified. The period of his residence in Delaware county covers
a third of a century. A man of excellent qualities of character,
of strong and resolute purpose, industrious and enterprising, he
is well known throughout the community for his uprightness and
honesty, and he merits and enjoys the respect and confidence of
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