Biography of WILLIAM LEO BIRKHOLZ, Rural Floyd County History, Iowa

Prepared for the Iowa GenWeb Archives by William Birkholz <WilliamBirkholz@netscape.net> 10-29-2000
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Taken from a Floyd County history book found in California by HAnn Kaye(nee)
Birkholz, in 1999.

WILLIAM LEO BIRKHOLZ 
William Leo Birkholz, proprietor of a well-kept farm of two hundred forty
acres in Rudd township, this county, is a native of the neighboring state of
Wisconsin, but has been a resident of this county since he was three years of
age. He was born on February, 14,1870, son of August and Ernestina
(Birkholtz) Birkholz, Germans, who came to this country about 1867 and located in
Wisconsin where they resided unti1 1873, when they came over into Iowa and
settled on a farm south of Charles City, in this county. They later moved to a
farm east of the village of Rudd, where they made their home until their
retirement from the farm and removal to Charles City, where they are now
living. 

They are members of the German Lutheran church and their children were reared
in that faith. There are five of these children, those besides the subject of
this sketch, the first-born, being Frank, who is farming east of Rudd; Ida,
who lives south of Charles City, and Charles and Louise, of Charles City. 

Reared on the home farm in Rudd Township, William L. Birkholz grew to manhood
there, receiving his schooling in the local schools, and in due time began
farming there on his own account, later moving to Rockford Township and thence
back to Rudd Township, where he bought the farm of two hundred and forty acres
on which he is now living and where he and his family are very comfortably
situated. 

Mr .Birkholz is a member of the board of directors of the Farmers Elevator
Company at Rudd and is one of the directors of the consolidated school at that
place. In 1894 William L. Birkholz was united in marriage to Anna Metz, who
was born on a pioneer farm east of Rockford, daughter of Jacob Metz and wife,
early settlers of this county, and to this union four children have been born,
Mabel, Florence, Leo and (living). 

Mr. and Mrs. Birkholz are members of the Lutheran church and take a proper
interest in church work, as well as in the general good works of the community
in which they live. He is a school director . 

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