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

[page 509-510]

    FRED KLUDAS, a retired farmer of Cherokee, Iowa, was born in Prussia,
    in the village of Helle, October 18, 1829, and is the oldest of a
    family of four children, all of whom are living.  The parents, JOHN
    and ELIZABETH (HANS) KLUDAS, emigrated to America, landing in the city
    of New York in 1854.  They continued their journey to Chicago, and
    thence to the State of Minnesota.  FRED KLUDAS entered school at the
    age of six years, and pursued his studies until he was fourteen years
    old.  He then went to work on a farm, and until he was twenty years
    old followed the peaceful pursuit of agriculture.  He then entered
    the Prussian Army and served his country for two years.  In the spring
    of 1854 he sailed with his parents for America.  From New York City
    he proceeded to Schenectady, New York, where he remained for three
    months; thence he went to Chicago, Illinois, in which city he stayed
    a short time, and then went to Elgin, Illinois.  He went to work on a
    farm, receiving for his services $22 in the summer, and in the winter
    $9 per month.  He afterward went to Minnesota, but the Indians proving
    troublesome, he returned to Illinois, and began farming on his own
    account.  He rented land for four years, and at the end of that time
    he bought ninety-six acres, on which he lived until he came to Cherokee
    County in 1870.  There he located on land in Afton Township, which was
    new and uncultivated and unimproved.  He first owned eighty acres, to
    which he afterward added 160 acres. He built a good house and barn, and
    made many valuable improvements.  He was one of the successful wheat-
    raisers, but in later years he turned his attention to the raising and
    fattening of hogs.  He has also been unusually fortunate in raising and
    feeding cattle.  Mr. KLUDAS was married November 3, 1857, to Miss
    ERNESTINE ARNDT, a native of Prussia, and a daughter of GOTTLIEB ARNDT.
    At the time of her marriage she was living in Minnesota.  Four children
    have been born of this union: ALBERT W., a farmer in Afton Township;
    EMMA M., wife of PHILIP F. FASSLER, of Stockton, California; WILLIE
    (deceased), and FRED J. at home.  In 1888 Mr. KLUDAS removed from his
    farm to the city of Cherokee, Iowa, and has since lived there a
    somewhat retired life.  He owns a comfortable home in the Addition.
    Politically he has cast his lot with the Democratic party, although
    for twenty years he affiliated with the Republican party.  He is a
    worthy member of the Lutheran Church.

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