J. H. Kitterman Bio b.1850, Rock Co., MN

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Biographical Sketch of Rock County, Mn.

J. H. Kitterman, (1893) is the proprietor of the drug store at Steen.  
He was born in Appanoose county, Iowa, March 31, 1850.  His father, 
John Kitterman, a native of Indiana, and his mother, Survilla (Rhodes) 
Kitterman, who was born in Ohio, are still living in Lyon County, Iowa.

Iowa was Mr. Kitterman's home until he attained the age of forty-four.  
The first nine years were spent in the county of his birth, the remaining 
thirty-three years as a resident of Worth county.  He was brought up on a 
farm and remained at home until after his twentieth birthday.  Then he 
commenced the battle of life for himself.  For one year he was employed 
as an engineer in a grist mill, and then for the same length of time he 
learned the ins and outs of the life of a stage driver.  He abanded that 
pursuit, was married, and for thirteen years following his occupation was 
that of collector for a large machime firm.  He next set up in the general 
merchantile business, for two years operating a store at the town of 
Bristol and for less than half that period at Lake Mills.

Our subjests career as a resident of Rock county began in June, 1893.  
During that month he located at Ashcreek, where for a little less than 
two years he conducted a general store and a lumber yard..  On selling 
out of business, he bought a bankrupt stock, valued at $10,000, in Sioux 
Falls, and conducted the store for a year.  His family did not move form 
Ashcreek however.  In 1896 he settled in Steen, where he started a general 
store and livery barn.  He conducted the store for a little over five 
years and the barn for one year, leasing it from that time.  He still 
owns both properties.  Before retiring from the merchantile business he 
engaged in the drug business and since selling the former he has devoted 
himself exclusively to the operation of his drug store.

Mr. Kitterman has on several occasions been honored by election to 
offices of trust.  For ten years he held the office of justice of peace, 
for six years served as clerk of Clinton township, and for the same period 
was one of the directors of his school district.  During his residence in 
Worth county, Iowa, he served for thirteen years as a justice of peace and 
for ten years was the constable of his precinct, having been appointed to 
the latter office when he was a youth of nineteen.  Mr. Kitterman is the 
owner of the southwest quarter of section 15, Clinton township.

At Northwood, Worth  county, Iowa, on November 25, 1871, our subject was 
united in marriage to Harriet E. Jones, a native of Catteraugus county, 
New York.  Their one son, F. F. Kitterman, resides at Steen and is the 
manager of the livery barn.  He also takes care of autos.