Last updated on 12 May 2012
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Joseph and Christina (Schlosser) Hank
1900 ...
Young Joseph Henry Hank at age 9 returned to Illinois from Iowa with his Uncle Peter. He recalls in his autobiography the fun he had walking up and down the aisles of the swaying cars on the train ride back. It is believed it was during his time with his Uncle Peter, that his name was changed to Henry Joseph in order to avoid confusion with that of Joseph, the oldest son of Peter, who was 7 years old at the time.
Around 1905, at age 11, Henry is put to work on the Peter Hank farm. He has little good to say about those years working for Pete and it was probably during those formative years that he developed not only a strong work ethic, but a moral sense for how a working man should be treated by his employer. This was not learned from his Uncle Pete, but rather it developed out of the lack of respect he had with his uncle for the way he was treated.
When he turned 14, he left the Peter Hank farm and hired himself out to Chris and Elizabeth Schwiderski for the next two years, Elizabeth being his older sister.
1910 ...
By April of 1910, Henry (17) is a boarder living at 1213 Fifth Avenue in Moline, Rock Island County and working as a clerk in the auto factory. He had met a friend by the name of Rollie Cummins in Sparland who worked up there and he followed him up there and landed a job. He quits within a couple of years because the work aggravated his rheumatism.
Young Joseph Henry Hank at age 9 returned to Illinois from Iowa with his Uncle Peter. He recalls in his autobiography the fun he had walking up and down the aisles of the swaying cars on the train ride back. It is believed it was during his time with his Uncle Peter, that his name was changed to Henry Joseph in order to avoid confusion with that of Joseph, the oldest son of Peter, who was 7 years old at the time.
Around 1905, at age 11, Henry is put to work on the Peter Hank farm. He has little good to say about those years working for Pete and it was probably during those formative years that he developed not only a strong work ethic, but a moral sense for how a working man should be treated by his employer. This was not learned from his Uncle Pete, but rather it developed out of the lack of respect he had with his uncle for the way he was treated.
When he turned 14, he left the Peter Hank farm and hired himself out to Chris and Elizabeth Schwiderski for the next two years, Elizabeth being his older sister.
1910 ...
By April of 1910, Henry (17) is a boarder living at 1213 Fifth Avenue in Moline, Rock Island County and working as a clerk in the auto factory. He had met a friend by the name of Rollie Cummins in Sparland who worked up there and he followed him up there and landed a job. He quits within a couple of years because the work aggravated his rheumatism.
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In 1912, Henry returns to the Schwiderski Farm at a time when they were pulling up stakes and moving to a new farm 9 miles east of Fonda, Iowa in Dover Township, Pocahontas County. The new farm was almost exactly 100 miles due north of the Wiota Farm. Henry works as their hired man for another year before returning to Henry about 1913.
In Henry, he works as a farm hand for Charlie Dietz one season and then for John Schlosser one season. It was probably while working for John Schlosser that he met Christina Schlosser, daughter of William and Elizabeth Maubach Schlosser, grand-daughter of John and Christina Fitzeler Schlosser and Peter and Elizabeth Kroeper Maubach.
Henry marries Christina Schlosser on November 24th, 1914 and he takes up farming on 80 rented acres west of Henry. He farm does well the first couple of years when his sons William and Harold are born.
In Henry, he works as a farm hand for Charlie Dietz one season and then for John Schlosser one season. It was probably while working for John Schlosser that he met Christina Schlosser, daughter of William and Elizabeth Maubach Schlosser, grand-daughter of John and Christina Fitzeler Schlosser and Peter and Elizabeth Kroeper Maubach.
Henry marries Christina Schlosser on November 24th, 1914 and he takes up farming on 80 rented acres west of Henry. He farm does well the first couple of years when his sons William and Harold are born.
Henry Joseph and Christina Hank Family (JEH)