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Re: VonEschen and Van Pelt
Posted by: Flathead County MTGenWeb Coordinator Date: February 15, 2002 at 14:36:25
In Reply to: VonEschen and Van Pelt by Deena Adkins (Berry) of 6897

Extracted from bio found in:

Montana Its Story and Biography
A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Mothnana and Three Decades of Statehood
Volume II, pages 228-9
by Tom Stout
copyright 1921

At time of bio: manager of the Billings branch of the Ryan Grocery Company

Born: March 25, 1886 at Shelby, Iowa

Father: F. Von Eschen, born 1847 in Switzerland; died 1895 in Shelby, Iowa; immigrated as a boy with his parents, settling in Wisconsin; moved to Shelby, Iowa after his marriage

Mother: Rosa (no surname given)

Siblings: George, residing at Shelby, Iowa; Florian, professor of Willamette College of Salem, Oregon; Edward, residing at Kirksville, Missouri; Ben, a farmer of Shelby, Iowa; Aaron, farmer of Shelby, Iowa

Graduated high school: Shelby, Iowa in 1904; attended Boyles Business College at Omaha, Nebraska

Arrived Billings, Montana: 1907

Wife: Anna Van Pelt, daughter of H. V. Van Pelt of Corning, Iowa

Married: 1907 at Corning, Iowa

Children: Harry L, born 1908; Maurine, born 1910; Kenneth, born 1913; Dorothy, born 1915



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