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From: Debbie Clough Gerischer <>
Subject: [IASCOTT] August Steffen, Bio
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:10:27 -0700


Posted on: Scott County Biographies
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Surname: Steffen, Gehrlicher
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"From History of Scott County, Iowa 1882 Chicago: Interstate Publishing
Co."

August Steffen, president of the Davenport Plow Manufacturing Co., and
proprietor of Steffen's wholesale and retail dry-goods store, 226, 228,
and 230, N. E. corner Second and Harrison streets, was born in Prussia,
Germany, Oct. 24, 1824, and was a son of Henry and Mary Steffen. He learned
the tobacco and cigar maker's trace in Germany and worked at that until
1849, when he came to America. He landed in New York, thence to Cincinnati
and New Orleans. In the spring of 1850 he went to California, where he
engaged in mining four years, then returned to New Orleans, via the Isthmus
of Panama. In May, 1854, he located in Davenport, and opened a grocery
store on the same ground where his present large wholesale and retail store
now stands; he remained in the grocery business until 1860, and from that
time until 1878 he engaged in the grain business. He then opened the dry-goods
establishment he now owns. The building is three stories high, with an
elevator and basement. They carry a full assortment of imported and domestic
goods, and have one of the finest stores in the city. Mr. Steffen was married
in Davenport on March 21, 1856, to Mary Gehrlicher, of Saxony, Germany.
They have had seven children, four living - Metta, Alfred, Adelia and August.
Mr. Steffen is director in the First National and the Davenport Savings
Banks, being a large stockholder in each.

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