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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:59:34 EDT

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

DR. C. H. CRETZMEYER, who for over twenty-five years has practiced medicine
at Algona, was born at Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, August 16, 1878. The
Cretzmeyer family came to Iowa nearly eighty years ago. The Cretzmeyers are
people whose names and characters are highly respected in several Iowa
communities, where they have given good account of themselves as business men,
farmers and in the professions, and have measured up to the duties of good
citizenship and patriotism at all times.

Doctor Cretzmeyer is a son of Henry and Margaret (Mooney) Cretzmeyer, his
father of German and his mother of Irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather
was born in Baden, Germany, and settled in New York State. Henry Cretzmeyer was
born in New York, and in 1852 came to Iowa and has lived in Bremer County
ever since. He was one of three sons. His brother Stephen enlisted in the
Union army at Muscatine, Iowa, and while a soldier in the South was captured and
was confined at Andersonville Prison. Henry Cretzmeyer for many years was a
brick manufacturer. His wife was born at Baltimore, Maryland, and came to
Iowa before her marriage. These parents had a family of ten children: Mary,
Francis X., Rose, C. H., John, Agnes, Annette, Margaret, Joseph and Charlotte.
All are living except Agnes and Joseph. Joseph died in France during the
World war.

Dr. C. H. Cretzmeyer graduated from the Waverly High School and then taught
for two years, using this method of defraying part of his expenses while in
university. In 1901 he was graduated from the School of Medicine of the
University of Iowa, and remained in Iowa City for one year as resident physician
at the University Hospital. In 1902 he opened his office and began building
up a general practice, in which he has been most successful, at Algona. He is
a member of the Kissuth County, Iowa State, Austin Flint District and
American Medical Associations. In matters of politics he acts independently and is
a Catholic in religion.
Doctor Cretzmeyer married Bertha M. Henry of Oskaloosa, October 14, 1915,
and they have two children, Charles H. and Margaret Jane.


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