Franklin County IA Archives Biographies.....Possehl, Louis November 2, 1876 - 
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Author: A HISTORY OF CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MN, VOL. 2, B. F. Bowen and Company, 1918

LOUIS POSSEHL 

      Louis F. Possehl is one of the painstaking farmers of Felton township,
Clay county. He was born in Cook county, Illinois, November 2, 1876, a son of
Fred and Minnie (Scheide) Possehl, natives of Germany, from which country the
emigrated to America when young, locating in Cook county, Illinois. Later they
moved to Dupage county, Illinois, after which the family removed to Franklin
county, Iowa, where the father remained until 1911, in which year he located at
Baker, Clay county, Minnesota, where he has since been living in retirement. By
his own efforts and untiring industry he became very comfortably  established,
although his early environment was unpromising. Fred and Minnie Possehl were the
parents of the following children: Sophia, Emma, Herman, H. C., Fred, Jr.,
Martha, Louis and Minnie. The mother of these children is deceased.

      Louis F. Possehl spent his childhood in Illinois, but received his early
education in the rural schools of Franklin county, Iowa. He assisted his father
with the work on the home farm as soon as he was old enough, and began farming
for himself in Franklin county, Iowa, in 1891, becoming the owner of a good farm
of one hundred and twenty acres, on which he continued general farming and stock
raising until 1910, when he disposed of this farm and removed to the village of
Baker, Minnesota, where he engaged in the general merchandise and hardware
business, which he carried on with ever-growing success until October, 1916. He
carried a large and well selected stock of goods, everything wanted by a farming
community, and his customers came from over a wide territory. Upon the last
mentioned date he traded his store for his present farm in section 28, Felton
township, Clay county. He is the owner of the entire east one-half of the
section, and has a valuable and well-improved farm, on which he is carrying on
general farming and stock raising successfully. He raises large numbers of live
stock which he prepares for the market, and he is also engaged in a dairying
business and finds a very ready market for his products. His property adjoins
the town of Felton, and is admirably located for dairy purposes. Mr. Possehl has
a family and a cozy home and good and substantial buildings for farm and dairy
work. He has a large silo and commodious barn and is well equipped for handling
stock.

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