Lincolnshire, and there they grew to maturity and were married. Upon coming to this country they took up their residence in Michigan. They spent the rest of their lives in America, each dying at the age of seventy-five years. They were the parents of six children, namely: Jesse died in 1903; Moses is deceased; George, deceased; Mrs. Adam Maggard lives in Ira; Susan S., wife of Mr. Jickling, of this review; one daughter died in infancy.

Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jickling, the two eldest in Michigan, the others in Jasper county, and here they were reared and educated; they were named as follows: George B., born July 21, 1861, the day of the first great battle of the Civil war, Bull Run; he is residing at Winterset, Iowa; William R., born on June 9, 1864, lives in Sherman township; Mrs. Laura Zenor, born March 6, 1868, is living at Tryon, Nebraska; Mrs. Edith May Couch, born July 23, 1871, lives in Sherman township, this county; Riley R., born September 14, 1874, died January 9, 1877.

Politically, Mr. Jickling is a Republican and while he has ever manifested an abiding interest in the affairs of his township and county, he has never sought to be a leader in public matters, preferring to devote his attention to his home and business. He has been road supervisor of his district.

Mrs. Jickling is the possessor of an old Bible, given to her at the age of twelve years when she was a member of a Sunday school class, at Weltobe Wold, England, in July, 1854, and she highly prizes the same.

Mr. and Mrs. Jickling have a pleasant and well furnished home, and here their many friends delight to gather and share their old-fashioned hospitality and good cheer, and they number their friends only by the limits of their acquaintance.

BENJAMIN F. DEPPE.

It is doubtful if any people that go to make up our cosmopolitan civilization have better habits of life than those who came originally from the great German empire. The descendants of these people are distinguished for their thrift and honesty, and these two qualities in the inhabitants of any country will eventually make that country great among the nations of the earth. When with these two qualities are coupled the other attributes of sound sense and correct habits, as most all German descendants seem to possess, there are afforded such qualities as will enrich any land and place it in the front rank of the nations of the earth in the scale of elevated humanity. Of this ex-. cellent people came the Deppe family, one of the best known of Jasper county,

where they have long been well established and of whom Benjamin F. Deppe, progressive farmer of Malaka township, is a worthy representative, being of the second generation of the family in America. He has been a diligent worker in his chosen field of endeavor and has been rewarded by large success, and, having minded well his own affairs and kept the even tenor of his way through all the years, he has earned the good will and esteem of his neighbors and many acquaintances.

Mr. Deppe was born in Malaka township, Jasper county, Iowa, and here he grew to manhood, received his education and has spent his life in agricultural pursuits, although he prepared himself for a business career, having completed the commercial course in the Newton Normal College. His birth occurred on February 14, 1874, and he is the son of Adolph and Wilhelmina (Schroeder) Deppe, both natives of Germany, from which country they emigrated to the United States, locating in Jasper county, Iowa, where they became well established, the death of the father occurring here in 1884. He assisted in laying the foundation of the recent Jasper county court house. There were six children in this family, all living, namely: Mrs. Etta Berkey, born September 17, 1857, lives in Baxter; Mrs. Mary Krampe lives in Baxter; William lives in Malaka township; Edward lives in Malaka township; Benjamin, of this sketch; Mrs. Emma Kresan, of Frankville. These children were born and reared in Jasper county.

Benjamin F. Deppe was married February 25, 1903, to Anna Stock, who was born in Independence township, this county, October 26, 1882, and here she grew to womanhood and received her education in the public schools. She is the daughter of Frank and Frederika (Boedeker) Stock, the father born in Lippe-Detmold, Germany, and the mother in Wisconsin. They are now living in Baxter, he beeing seventy years old and she sixty.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stock, eight of whom are living, namely: Lena, born August 10, 1876, lives with her parents in Baxter; August, born in 1878, lives in Independence township; Anna, wife of Mr. Deppe, of this sketch; Mrs. Lydia Kanne, born April 20, 1881, lives in Malaka township; William lives in Independence township; Henry, born in 1885, is deceased; Clara lives at home in Baxter; Emma and Lizzie, twins, born in 1890, live with their brother on the home farm in Independence township. These children were born and reared in this township.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs Deppe, namely: Reuben A., born November 20, 1905; Edna A., born October 6, 1907. These children were born in Malaka township, and the eldest is attending school here.

Politically, Mr. Deppe is a Republican, and he has been school director in

this community. He and his wife are members of the German Reformed church in Independence township.

Mr. Deppe is the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Malaka township, which he has brought up to a high state of improvement and cultivation, on which he carries on general farming and stock raising successfully. He has a very pleasant and well furnished home and substantial outbuildings.

EDWIN J. GOODWIN.

Independence township, Jasper county, can claim many young enterprising farmers who are adopting the best of the twentieth-century methods of tilling the soil, while on the other hand some seem to prefer clinging to the style of work followed by their forefathers when this country was in its infancy or in the older localities of the Eastern states. Of course, the farmers of fifty and one hundred years ago succeeded, but this was due not so much to their skill as to the fact that the land was fertile, being new, and to their hard labor, persistently applied. None will gainsay that they worked harder than do their descendants of today. It is doubtful if the young husbandmen of this epoch would make more than a bare living should they go back to the simple methods of the early days; the land must be managed differently to get the best results.

One of the scientific farmers of this locality who has succeeded through his ingenuity and close application to advanced methods of agriculture is Edwin J. Goodwin, who was born in Pennsylvania, February 11, 1873. He is the son of Dr. Eugene A. and Sarah Louise (Smith) Goodwin, the father born at Hallowell, Maine, April 10, 1831, and the mother was born at Hacketstown, New Jersey, July 8, 1841. They grew up in the East, received their education and were married there, emigrating to Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, in the fall of 1878. The father was a successful physician and for years was one of the best known in this locality. His death occurred in Marshall county, Iowa, on October 18, 1910, and his wife died in Jasper county on April 18, 1904. Doctor Goodwin was graduated from the Long Island Hospital and the New York College of Medicine, also from the University of Michigan College of Medicine, class of 1871, being a colleague of the well known Dr. Perry Engle, mentioned elsewhere in the work. The subject has the two diplomas awarded by these institutions to his father. Doctor Goodwin served in the Civil war, having enlisted in the Ninety-ninth New York

Volunteer Infantry, on June 14, 1861, and after a very praiseworthy record, he was discharged on July 2, 1864. His family consisted of two children: Edwin J., of this sketch, being the sole survivor; the eldest child, a daughter, Mrs. Edith May Atkinson, who was born in Bethlehem, New Jersey, June 23, 1868, died in Des Moines, Iowa, February 17, 1896.

Edwin J. Goodwin was five years old when he came with his parents to Jasper county in 1878 and here he grew to manhood and received his education, and here he has continued to reside. He lived in Newton one year and there attended the public schools, then moved with the family to near Old Baxter and attended the rural schools there. He supplemented his graded school work with two years' study in Highland Park College, Des Moines, in 1896 and 1897, after which he returned to the farm where he has since. devoted his energies.

Mr. Goodwin was married on January 23, 1901, to Genevieve A. Cool, who was born in Jasper county, Iowa, January 27, 1882. She was reared here, attended the local schools and has always resided in this county. She is the daughter of Peter J. and Lucina B. (Stone) Cool, the father born in Freeport, Illinois, July 1, 1852, and the mother was born in Wisconsin, June 16, 1860. He came with his parents to Jasper county, Iowa, in 1853 and was one of the pioneers of the county. The parents of Mrs. Goodwin both live in Baxter, a well known and influential family here for over a half century. Their complete sketch is to be found on another page of this work.

Mrs. Goodwin was the third in order of birth in a family of six children, namely: Mrs. Agnes Workman, born December 15, 1878, of Baxter; Mrs. Leota Allen, born August 12, 1880, lives near Baxter; Mrs. Winifred Curyea, born December 16, 1883, is living at Parker, South Dakota; Mrs. Alphone Gallagher, born August 2, 1887, is living at home; Mrs. Ethel Dodd, born November 30, 1891, lives in Marshall county. All these children were born and reared in Jasper county.

After the death of Mr. Goodwin's sister, he took into his home his niece, Edith May Akinson, who was born on February 12, 1896, who has been educated in the rural schools of this community and will enter the Baxter high school in the fall of 1912.

Mr. Goodwin owns forty acres of good land in Independence, which he is rapidly placing under modern improvements, and he has a pleasant home. Politically, he is a Republican. He has been secretary of the board of education of Independence township for a number of years. He belongs to Baxter Lodge No. 168, Knights of Pythias, of Baxter. He and his wife are

members of Baxter Temple No. 202, Pythian Sisters, and they are members of the Congregational church at Baxter.

Mrs. Goodwin is a lady of talent along musical lines and for some time has been a popular instructor in that branch of the fine arts, the piano being her specialty, for which she has well qualified herself. In addition to the work with competent teachers in this community, she supplemented this with one year's work in the Grinnell College Conservatory of Music. These are popular young people in all circles of their community, representing as they do a splendid type of our best citizenship.

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FRANK KIMBERLEY.

The life of Frank Kimberley, one of the best known stock men and agriculturists of Jasper county, has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance and the notably systematic and honorable methods he has followed have won him the unbounded confidence and regard of all who have formed his acquaintance. In looking over the list of worthy citizens of this locality the biographer deems none more worthy of representation in a work of this nature than this honored representative of one of our esteemed pioneer families. He is a man of progressive ideas, plain and straightforward in his relations with his fellow men, obliging and unassuming, which accounts for his universal popularity.

Mr. Kimberley was born in Allamakee county. Iowa, December 20, 1864, and early in life he came with his parents to Jasper county and settled in Clear Creek township, where he has continued to reside, his parents being among the early settlers of the county and among the best known of her citizens. He is the son of Isaiah and Mary Ann (Cleverly) Kimberley, both natives of England, the father born in Coventry, April 14, 1824, and the mother in London, January 12, 1832. The father spent his early life in his native land and emigrated to the United States in 1841 and settled in New York City, where he remained a short time, thence went to Massachusetts, where he lived seven years, then returned to England, where he sojourned six months and returned to New York, and in 1854 he came to Allamakee county, Iowa, and lived there twelve years, removing to Jasper county in 1866 and has lived here ever since. His parents, John and Mary Ade, natives of England, spent their early lives there and there the mother died, the father emigrating to America and the older Kimberley died in Jasper county, Iowa, at

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