Turner County, SD Biographies.....Heeren, W. E. October 17, 1850 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HON. W. E. HEEREN. The subject of this biography is an enterprising and
thorough-going farmer and stock raiser, who has a fine farm in section 10, of
Germantown township, Turner county. He is a native of the Prairie state, and was
born October 17, 1850, in Stephenson county, Ill. He grew to manhood in his native
county, attending the common schools for an education, and also spent one term at
the German school. He remained at home assisting on the farm until he was
twenty-four years of age, when he was married, March 24, 1875, to Miss Grace Van
Oosterloo, also a native of Stephenson county, and a daughter of Michael and
Margaret (Van Loh) Van Oosterloo, who were natives of Hanover, Germany. Mr. Heeren
and his wife located on a farm of 160 acres in Stephenson county, where he engaged
in general farming until 1890; that year he came to Turner county, S. Dak., and
settled on a farm in Home township, where he remained for two and a half years, and
then located on the farm where he now resides. He has a very fine piece of property
of 640 acres, all in Germantown township, on which he built, in 1893, a nice
residence, at a cost of $1,500, and also has some good, substantially constructed
outbuildings, together with a grove of trees, which he planted himself. He devotes
most of his time to general farming and stock raising, in which he has been
eminently successful.

Mr. Heeren politically is a stanch Republican, and religiously he and wife are
members of the Presbyterian church, in the Sunday-school of which he is a teacher.
He has taken considerable interest in public matters, is now a justice of the peace
and a member of the boards of supervisors and school directors. In the fall of 1896
he became the candidate of his party to represent Turner county in the state
legislature, and was elected to that position by a handsome majority. Besides his
public duties and farm affairs Mr. Heeren also takes an active part in conducting
the Germantown Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance company, of which he is
secretary. He and wife are the parents of an interesting family of eight children,
six sons and two daughters, all of whom are unmarried and reside at home. They are:
Jelle J., Michael G., John F., Daniel, Herman B., Margaret L., Tillie and William
F.

The parents of our subject, Jelle and Tillie (Parks) Heeren were natives of Germany,
both of whom emigrated to America when young. Mr. Heeren still resides with his good
wife on the farm he first located on when he came to this country, in Stephenson
county, Ill., fifty years ago.


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