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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 577-578]

   HENRY ASMAN, who has been a resident of Cherokee County for about
   eighteen years, is a native of Prussia, Germany, born September 22,
   1840.  When he was nine years of age his parents, HENRY and DOROTHEA
   ASMAN, emigrated to America, being fully convinced that this country
   afforded a better opportunity for people to enjoy "life, liberty and
   the pursuit of happiness" than had been afforded them in their mother
   country.  Accordingly, in 1849, they sailed over the great ocean to
   this continent, landing in New York City; from that place they went
   at once to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and located permanently near Two
   Rivers, Wisconsin, where the parents spent the remainder of their
   lives.  HENRY, of whom this notice is written, is the fourth of a
   family of five children, three daughters and two sons.  He remained
   in Milwaukee, and at the age of thirteen years he went to learn the
   baker's trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years; he then worked
   at his trade in Milwaukee until 1861, when he enlisted in the defense
   of his country, or the country which he had made his by adoption. He
   became a member of Company I, Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infan-
   try, and was sent South, being assigned to the Army of the Cumberland,
   in General SHERIDAN'S Division.  He took part in the memorable battles
   of Perryville and Stone River, where he was captured as a prisoner of
   war; after several unsuccessful attempts to get through the Union lines
   he was paroled; three days later he was sent to Gallatin, Tennessee,
   from which point he was exchanged.  He was detailed to post duty under
   Generals GRANT and SHERMAN, and was mustered out in June, 1865.  He
   came back to Milwaukee, and again went into the bakery business, which
   he continued until 1872, when he came to Cherokee County.  The first
   eight years of his residence there he engaged in farming, but becoming
   tired of that, and thinking he could better his circumstances, he re-
   moved to the town of Cherokee, and embarked in the grocery trade,
   forming a partnership with Major ROBERT M. SMITH that continued three
   years.  Mr. SMITH then sold his interest in the business to J. H.
   UMHOEFER.  That firm operated one year when Mr. ASMAN sold to E. W.
   EIMERS.  Mr. ASMAN remained out of business about eighteen months,
   and then started in the grocery business on his own account, at his
   present stand.  His store-room proper is 22x60 feet, with a wareroom
   18x24 feet.  He carries a complete stock of groceries, crockery,
   queen's-ware and wooden ware, and has a large and profitably trade.
   Mr. ASMAN was married in 1865 to Miss LOUISA BUTTNER, of Gallatin,
   Tennessee, in which place he had a store for two years.  Mrs. ASMAN
   is a native of North Carolina, and is the daughter of ABRAHAM BUTTNER.
   Mr. ASMAN and wife have no children.  Our subject has served as one
   of the trustees of the Citizens' Life Association at Cherokee, and is
   a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 158.  He is a consistent
   member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs to the G.A.R.,
   Custer Post No. 25.  Success has seemed to crown his efforts; commencing
   away down at the bottom of the hill, he has kept steadily pushing onward
   and upward, achieving a little now and then; while other men were grasp-
   ing for higher "stakes," he has humbly taken up with smaller things, and
   to-day has a handsome compentency.  He owns a good farm, a fine grocery
   business, and a comfortable home in Cherokee.

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