Claus F. Eggers Biography


	This biography appears on pages 982-983 in "History of Dakota 
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				CLAUS F. EGGERS. 

	Claus F. Eggers, who resides on section 11, Mapleton township, 
owns a valuable and modernly improved farm of four hundred acres and is 
widely recognized as one of the progressive, up-to-date and 
enterprising agriculturists of Minnehaha county. His birth occurred in 
Germany on the 16th of February, 1879, his parents being C. F. and Kate 
(Rochel) Eggers. In 1880 the father emigrated to the United States, 
locating first at Davenport, Iowa, where he spent two years and 
subsequently residing in Tama county, that state, for seven years. On 
the expiration of that period he removed to O'Brien county, Iowa, where 
he made his home for twenty years and then came to Sioux Falls, South 
Dakota. Here he passed away in June, 1913, but is survived by his 
widow. 

	Claus F. Eggers acquired a public-school education and after 
putting aside his textbooks assisted his father in the work of the home 
farm. In March, 1907 he came to South Dakota and first purchased and 
located on a tract comprising two hundred and forty acres of land in 
Mapleton township, Minnehaha county. Later he extended the boundaries 
of the place by an additional purchase of eighty acres and two years 
ago bought another tract of similar size, so that his holdings now 
embrace four hundred acres. He likewise has seventy head of cattle, 
thirteen horses and twenty-two brood sows. His farm is highly improved 
in every particular, and modern machinery and implements facilitate the 
work of the fields. His methods are practical and therefore productive 
of excellent results, and in the conduct of his agricultural interests 
he has won a gratifying and richly merited measure of prosperity. 

	On the 15th of February, 1901, Mr. Eggers was joined in wedlock 
to Miss Mary Riechers, a daughter of John and Margaret Riechers. They 
have the following children: Alfred; Elmer; Aletta and Leona, twins; 
Delbert; and Myrtle. Mr. Eggers gives his political allegiance to the 
republican party and is identified fraternally with the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks, belonging to Lodge No. 62 at Sioux Falls. His 
religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. He is a man of domestic 
tastes, a lover of home and fireside, and is fond of fishing and 
hunting as a means of recreation. Mr. Eggers is well known throughout 
the community for his many excellent traits of character and has 
commanded the respect and confidence of his neighbors and friends.