Frank Kiene

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KIENE FAMILY BIO
Gustav Kiene was born at Rottweil, Germany on 1 February 1836 to Johann and Anna Kiene. As a young man he emigrated to the United States. The first records available about him are the birth registrations of his and his wife's (Pauline SCHATZ/Schultz Kiene) two oldest children: Joseph and Herman, at Duluth, MN on 27 January 1874 and 22 February 1875. Gustav's occupation was listed as "brewer".
Records are incomplete on moves made by the Kiene Family, but it is believed they moved fra Duluth to the Toledo, Ohio, area. From there they returned to Minnesota, homesteading on the NW 1/4 Section 12, Hazelton Twp; Kittson Co, the land being recorded to Gustav and Pauline Kiene 20 May 1891.
While in Ohio two children were born: Frank, born 8 June 1876 and Anton, born August 1881 (Birth records were not required by the state of Ohio until 1908). The Kiene family arrived in Kittson Co, prior to 1886, since the birth of a fifth son, John is recorded in Kittson Co on 26 Dec 1886. The birth of a sixth son, Paul, is not recorded, but it is believed he too was born in Kittson Co, MN.
At some time after 1891, Gustav and Pauline Kiene separated. Their oldest child, Joseph, had moved to Oregon, Herman is believed to have drowned. Gustav and the three youngest boys returned to Toledo, Ohio. Pauline and Frank remained in Kittson Co. Neighbors in Hazelton Twp recall seeing Frank plowing behind a walking plow pulled by a horse, a cow and an ox. During this period, Frank hiked fra their home to Kennedy, where he worked for and lived with the Bengt Sundberg family. Pauline Kiene's health failed, she sold the land in Hazelton Twp to Frank in June 1897, and her death at Fergus Falls, MN on 9 Oct 1897 is recorded in OtterTail Co.
Frank remained with the Bengt Sundbergs, who provided a home and an education. With Mr Sundberg's help, Frank attended the Agricultural College of the University of Minnesota St Paul and received high grades in commerical agriculture courses.
Around 1900, using savings and money borrowed from the bank in Kennedy, Frank bought a farm and a store, first called: "Kieno's Dept Store", later named "The Kennedy Trading Company". Merchandising and farming became the pattern of his business activity for the rest of his life.
On 6 May 1905, Frank married Rena C. CALMER, who died 31 August 1906. On 11 January 1915, he married Hannah Maria BERG, they had one child, a son: Eli, born 13 March 1917. Tragically, the second marriage was short-lived also, Hannah died 1 March 1924.
Frank Kiene continued to expand his holdings, although not without adversity in the late 1920's and during the Depression that followed. At the time of his death, he controlled one of the largest family held farms in Minnesota. He worked actively at his farming and business enterprises until his death on 30 July 1954.
(Frank Kiene's career is more detailed in a forthcoming book on midwest agriculture fra 1910 to the present, written by Dr Hiriam Drache of Concordia College).
At Frank Kiene's death, Eli Kiene who had worked closely with his father, assumed management of the Kiene enterprises. Eli grew up and married.
---page 228 Kittson Co MN Centennial Book
*** For privacy reasons , living members of this bio have been excluded.

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Frank Kiene was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1876, the son of Gustav and Pauline Kiene. The family first moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota and then to Kittson when Frank was six years old. His mother died when he was nine years old. Frank Kiene married twice. His first wife Rena C. Calmer died shortly after they were married. He married Hannah Berg on June 11, 1915, and they had one son, Ell. Hannah died on March 1, 1924. Frank Kiene died in 1954.
These files, kept by Frank Kiene, document his personal finances and tax payments, include correspondence with business partners and the Minnesota Potato Growers Association, of which Frank Kiene was president (circa 1924-circa 1926), and contain Kiene Farms, Inc. records such as grain records, potato data/information, crop yields and sales data, land purchases, applications, and sale documents. Papers related to Frank Kiene's estate are also included.

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Kiene Farms was incorporated on March 1, 1917 by Frank Kiene, Hannah M. Kiene and Alfred A. Berr. It was located in Kennedy, Minnesota. The capital stock was $200,000 and was divided into 2000 shares at $3100 each. Besides the major crops of potatoes, wheat, barley and flax, the general nature of the business included buying, acquiring, improving, leasing, owning, selling and dealing in lands and tenements.
In 1951 Frank Kiene was president, R. [Ruth?] E. Anderson secretary and Ell Kiene vice president. In 1956 Ell Kiene became president after his father Frank Kiene died in 1954. In August of 1944, Kennedy Trading Company merged with Kiene Farms, Inc. Kiene Farms, Inc. also owned 46 shares in Kittson Farm Bureau Service Association.
The Kiene family's landholdings included lands that once formed James J. Hill's Northwest Farm, an experimental property developed to test new strains of wheat and other crops. The Kiene family also owned businesses in Kennedy and Hallock, Minnesota. Kiene Farms, Inc. was at one point the largest privately owned farm in Minnesota.

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Frank Kiene

Birth 8 Jun 1876
Death 30 Jul 1954 (aged 78)
Burial Kennedy Cemetery </cemetery/82552/kennedy-cemetery> Kennedy, Kittson County, Minnesota, USA
Memorial ID 38638957 · View Source

Frank blev gift med Rena C. Calmer den 11 Jun. 1915. (Rena C. Calmer blev født i Dec. 1875, døde i Aug. 1906 i Kennedy, Kittson County, Minnesota., USA og blev begravet i Kennedy, Kittson County, Minnesota., USA.)

Frank blev derefter gift med Hannah Berg den 11 Jun. 1915. (Hannah Berg blev født den 20 Okt. 1881, døde den 1 Mar. 1924 i Kennedy, Kittson County, Minnesota., USA og blev begravet i Kennedy, Kittson County, Minnesota., USA.)