Henry Kampman Biography


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HENRY KAMPMAN is one of the industrious and thorough farmers and stock 
raisers of Carlyle township, and a representative citizen of that 
portion of Beadle county. He is the owner of a splendid farm on section 
33, and during his residence in this state has met with marked success 
in his farming operations. He is a native of Germany, born in 
Westphalia, October 18, 1857, and is a son of John and Elizabeth 
(Maene) Kampman, farming people. He attended school until fourteen 
years of age, and was then bound out by his father to learn the 
carpenter's trade. During the first two years of his apprenticeship he 
received no wages. He worked at Buer for about six years, and then two 
years at Essen. 

About this time Mr. Kampman decided to try his fortune in America, and 
bidding good-by to home and friends in the fatherland, he sailed for 
the new world, his destination being Jackson, Michigan, where he found 
employment in a sash and door factory, remaining there three years. 
Then, returning to his native land on a visit, he prolonged his stay 
there to four years. While there he did not work at his trade, but was 
employed in the coal mines about half the time, and the remainder was 
spent as a farm hand. On again coming to the United States, he located 
in Woonsocket, South Dakota, and renting a farm west of that place, he 
engaged in its operation for one year. In the spring of 1888, he filed 
a claim on the southeast quarter of section 33, Carlyle township. He 
bought the relinquishment to this land and filed a tree claim. On 
coming to this state, Mr. Kampman had about two thousand dollars, most 
of which was invested in land, and he has since paid out about one 
thousand dollars for machinery. Twice he has lost his entire crops by 
hail, but on the whole he has succeeded well, and now owns and operates 
about two hundred and fifty acres of valuable land. In 1898 he milked 
fifteen cows and raised twelve calves. From the sale of this milk to 
the creamery, he made about twenty dollars per month. 

On the 11th of June, 1885, Mr. Kampman was united in marriage with Miss 
Elizabeth Rund, who was born in Prussia, Germany, July 16, 1865, a 
daughter of Melchar and Gertrude (Balster) Rund. They have become the 
parents of seven children, of whom the two eldest were born in Germany, 
and their names and dates of birth are as follows: Bernard, September 
4, 1886; Emma, December 26, 1887; Elizabeth, February 3, 1890; Mary, 
May 4, 1892; Lena, March 15, 1894; Henry, April 19, 1896, and George, 
February 26, 1898. Politically Mr. Kampman is a Populist; socially is a 
member of the Modern Woodmen of America; and religiously is a 
communicant of the Catholic church.