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

[page 620-621]

    HENRY BEJASCH, one of the rising young farmers of Tilden Township,
    Cherokee County, was born in Switzerland, September 25, 1857, and
    is a son of JOHN and DOROTHY BEJASCH.  His childhood and early youth
    were passed in his own beautiful country, and he was trained to that
    most useful occupation, farming; he received a fair education in the
    common schools.  His parents hoping to give their children a better
    chance in this life, and perhaps better their own circumstances,
    emigrated to America when HENRY was fifteen years of age.  The father
    died three years later, leaving his son an inheritance of forty acres
    of land, and the memory of an industrious, frugal father, but with
    this exception he has accumulated all his property through his own
    efforts.  In 1880 Mr. BEJASCH came to Cherokee County, from Jones
    County, Iowa, where he had made his home for seven years, and settled
    in Silver Township; he lived there three years on 160 acres of raw
    land which he had purchased, and at the end of three years he sold it
    and bought 160 acres in Rock Township, which he traded one year later
    for his present farm of 160 acres; he has added to this 120 acres, all
    of which is well fenced, making 280 acres in all; he has made many
    valuable improvements on the farm, and has one of the most desirable
    places in the township.  His whole time and attention are occupied
    with farming and stock-raising, and his industry and wise manage-
    ment have brought their reward.  Mr. BEJASCH was reared in the faith
    of the Reformed Church, and has lived a life of such integrity and
    uprightness that he has the confidence and respect of all who know
    him.  Politically he is identified with the Democratic party.

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