Gustave E. Eggers

GUS EGGERS (1891) GUS EGGERS has for twenty years been a resident of Pipestone county and for that entire period has been a Sweet township farmer. He is a native German and was born November 4, 1860, the son of John and Maggie (Thistlekamp) Eggers. John Eggers was a blacksmith by trade.

Gus was educated in the common schools of his native land, and at the age of nineteen years immigrated with his sister Elizabeth to the United States. His first employment was on a farm near Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until his marriage in 1886. Mr. Eggers then rented land in Tama county, Iowa which he farmed until coming to Pipestone county five years later. He bought the southwest quarter of section 34, Sweet, upon which he lived twelve years. On disposing of that land, he bought his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 32 and the north half of section 33, upon which he has made many substantial improvements and only recently erected a fine residence. Much attention is given to the raising of high grade stock, especially sheep, on the Eggers farm.

Our subject is a member of the township board and owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen and the Independent Harvester company of Plano, Illinois.

Mr. Eggers was married in Tama county Iowa, March 16, 1886, to Mathilda Hanson who was born in Iowa June 30, 1867, the daughter of Carsten and Mary (Grove) Hanson.

To these parents the following named seven children have been born; Mary, John, Henry, Edward, Hannah, Minna and Leona.

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GUS EGGERS has for twenty years been a resident of Pipestone county and for that entire period has been a Sweet township farmer. He is a native German and was born November 4, 1860, the son of John and Maggie (Thistlekamp) Eggers. John Eggers was a blacksmith by trade.

Gus was educated in the common schools of his native land, and at the age of nineteen years immigrated with his sister Elizabeth to the United States. His first employment was on a farm near Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until his marriage in 1886. Mr. Eggers then rented land in Tama county, Iowa which he farmed until coming to Pipestone county five years later. He bought the southwest quarter of section 34, Sweet, upon which he lived twelve years. On disposing of that land, he bought his present farm, the northeast quarter of section 32 and the north half of section 33, upon which he has made many substantial improvements and only recently erected a fine residence. Much attention is given to the raising of high grade stock, especially sheep, on the Eggers farm.

Our subject is a member of the township board and owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Ihlen and the Independent Harvester company of Plano, Illinois.

Mr. Eggers was married in Tama county Iowa, March 16, 1886, to Mathilda Hanson who was born in Iowa June 30, 1867, the daughter of Carsten and Mary (Grove) Hanson.

To these parents the following named seven children have been born; Mary, John, Henry, Edward, Hannah, Minna and Leona.