Mrs. Minnie Clough has been
a resident of Clayton county since her childhood and
here she has shown splendid energy and
resourcefulness as a business woman, her success
having been the result of her well-ordered efforts
and personal popularity and having given her a place
of prominence and influence in business circles in
this county. She owns and conducts at Strawberry
Point the well-equipped general merchandise store
known as the Bee Hive, and the same has the best of
facilities for meeting the demands placed upon it by
a large and appreciative patronage. Mrs. Clough owns
not only the modern brick building in which her store
is located but also a well-improved farm of one
hundred and eighty acres in Cass township. She is
essentially one of the representative business women
of Clayton county and her gracious personality has
gained to her a circle of friends whose number is
virtually equal to that of her acquaintances.
She was born in Dubuque
county, Iowa , and is a daughter of Gottlieb and
Minnie (Heisler) Steinhulber. Her parents were born
in Germany and were children at the time of the
immigration of the respective families to America ,
where they were reared and educated and where their
marriage was solemnized in Iowa. In the pioneer days
Mr. Steinhulber was engaged in the mercantile
business in Dubuque for a number of years, and in
1860 he came with his family to Clayton county and
purchased a farm in Sperry township. He became one of
the prosperous agriculturalists and highly esteemed
citizens of this county and here continued to
maintain his residence on his old homestead until his
death, though he was visiting his sister in the city
of New York at the time of his demise, which occurred
in 1906. His cherished and devote wife did not long
survive him, as she was summoned to the life eternal
in 1908. They became the parents of six children, all
of them are living, and all were carefully reared in
the faith of the Lutheran church, of which her
parents were lifelong and devout communicants.
Mrs. Clough continued her
studies in the public schools of Clayton county until
she had completed an effective course in the high
school at Elkader. In 1885 she engaged in the
mercantile business as Strawberry Point, and here her
Bee Hive Store is now one of the principal mercantile
establishments of the progressive village, with a
substantial trade that has been developed through
effective service and fair and honorable dealings.
Mrs. Clough is an earnest communicant of the Lutheran
church and is liberal in the support of the various
departments of its work. She has a pleasant home in
which she finds pleasure in extending cordial
hospitality to her many friends, and in which she is
lovingly rearing two little girls whom she has taken
under her benignant care and one of whom is the
daughter of one of her kinsfolk.
source: History of
Clayton County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical
Times Down to the Present; by Realto E. Price,
Vol. II, 1916; pg. 74-75
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