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Charles
Pushan Any
person who will investigate the facts in the case will be surprised to learn of
the great number of people of Germanic descent now living in the United States.
Unquestionably the greatest number of emigrants reaching the shores of
the new world comes from that nation and statistics show that there is more
Germanic blood in the United States than any other. This being the fact, it is
easy to account for the prosperity and morality of this country.
Not only that, but it will afford an explanation for the love of
learning, scientific research and investigation shown by the people of this vast
country. One
of this worthy number is Charles Pashan, who, however, might more properly be
called an Austrian, but whose characteristics are identically those of the
German citizen, for his birth occurred in German Austria, November 15, 1862.
His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pashan, were both natives
of the same country; the father, who was born in 1823, was a foreman in a
brewery in his native country, and he is still living there, never having come
to America. Charles
Pashan was educated in the schools of his native country where he grew to
maturity, but he also attended school in Clinton County, Iowa, having emigrated
to the United States in 1876. He
worked hard and saved his money and therefore soon got a start, and in 1904 he
purchased the excellent farm of one hundred and fifty-eight acres on which he
now lives and which he has placed under excellent improvements.
He has a good home and good outbuildings, and he raises considerable
stock in connection with general farming. His
farm is located in section 13, Kellogg Township. Mr.
Pashan was married in 1892 to Emma Plashne, who was born in Plymouth County,
Iowa, in 1872, and she is the daughter of John and Catherine Plashne, natives of
Germany, who emigrated to Iowa in an early day and settled in Plymouth County.
To Mr. and Mrs. Pashan five children have been born, three sons and two
daughters, namely: Fred, Lydia, Nellie, Pearl and Archie. Politically, Mr. Pashan is a Democrat and he belongs to the Modern Brotherhood of America and the German Lutheran Church. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1298. |
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