JOHN P. STUHR, merchant, Minden, was born in Schleswig, Germany, January 12, 1844. He is the son of John and Anna (Carstensen) Stuhr, both natives of Schleswig, Germany. His father was born in 1813, and is a farmer. His mother was born in 1815. Both the parents are at present living in Harrison County, this State. They had eight children--four sons and four daughters.

Our subject received a good education in his native country, and also attended school in Blue Grass, Scott County, this State. He began life as a farmer, and was engaged a short times in that occupation near Davenport, this State, to which place he came September 12, 1863. He went to St. Louis in the following year, but returned shortly afterward.

September 6, 1864, he enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, Company B, under Gens. J. A. Smith and Canby. He fought in the battles of Spanish Fort, Mobile, and was wounded in the knee by a bayonet in an engagement in Arkansas, near Island No. 13.

He came to Minden in 1875, and, August 1, 1881, he bought the store of Bartell & Co., and started in the general merchandise business, in which he has since been engaged.

He has been a Township Assessor in this county, and a Road Supervisor in Scott County, this State.

He was married, in Davenport, May 26, 1866, to Amelia Cornelius, born in Germany October 28, 1846. She is the daughter of Marcus and Anna (Muller) Cornelius, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Stuhr have six children--four boys and two girls--Alvina A., Julius, John M. R., Adelia H., William and Walter.

Our subject is a member of the Lutheran Church, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. In politics, he is a Republican.