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Heinrich Arnold Böckenstedt

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Heinrich Arnold Böckenstedt

Birth
Holthausen, Landkreis Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
18 May 1931 (aged 94)
Bremen Township, Delaware County, Iowa, USA
Burial
New Vienna, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Brothers Anton, Arnold, and Clemens Bockenstedt received national publicity when each, over ninety-years of age, decided to vote for Governor Alfred E. Smith based on the support of agriculture and willingness to admit the failure of Prohibition. Bockenstedt owned six lots and several buildings in New Vienna where he served as a school director and a member of the city council.
Lyon, Randolph W. Faith and Fortunes: An Encyclopedia of Dubuque County, Iowa City, Iowa. Flynn Printing and Graphics, 1998
(With thanks to Cheryl Locher Moonen for the above information)

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Brothers Anton, Arnold, and Clemens Bockenstedt received national publicity when each, over ninety-years of age, decided to vote for Governor Alfred E. Smith based on the support of agriculture and willingness to admit the failure of Prohibition. Bockenstedt owned six lots and several buildings in New Vienna where he served as a school director and a member of the city council.
Lyon, Randolph W. Faith and Fortunes: An Encyclopedia of Dubuque County, Iowa City, Iowa. Flynn Printing and Graphics, 1998
(With thanks to Cheryl Locher Moonen for the above information)

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If you add links or photographs to this memorial, will you please use "Edit" (upper right corner) to let me know? Thank you.
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Monument:

ARNOLD H.
BOCKENSTEDT

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1837 + 1931

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