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JOHN HENRY HAUBERG

Son of Marx David Hauberg and Anna Margaret (Frels) Hauberg was born in Coe township. Rock Island county, Ill., November 22. 1869. For the first twenty- odd years of his life his were the experiences common to the boys of the farm, doing all kinds of field work in summer and attending the country schools in winter, except for one winter spent at the Port Byron academy. After he was of age he went out "to see the world" and spent several months at work in lumber camps of Missouri and Arkansas, and several months on a large cattle ranch in Wyoming. In 1894 he completed a course at Duncan's Davenport business college, and in 1907 he closed his studies at what is now Valparaiso University, Ind,, having been graduated in both the scientific and the classic courses there. The fall of the same year he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving his diploma from that institution with the class of 1900. During the summer's vacation of 1899 he enjoyed a bicycle trip of 1,200 miles, visiting Washington, D. C., New York city and other places of interest. Six months more were spent in travel in Europe, and then in October 1901, he successfully passed the state bar examination. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of law in Rock Island county, having an office in Moline until December, 1911, when he came to Rock Island.

In June 1911 he was united in marriage to Miss Susanne C. Denkmann, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann of Rock Island.Ill. She was born at Rock Island and attended the public schools of the city, later taking up literary studies at Dana Hall and at Wellesley college. A theoretical and practical course in kindergarten work was taken, of a year each at Chicago and New York city, respectively, and two summers were spent in travel abroad. She is deeply interested in the West End Settlement of Rock Island, and takes active part in a number of projects for the betterment of the community in which she lives.

Mr. Hauberg was for four terms elected president of the Luther League of Illinois; is a member of the state executive boards of the Illinois Sunday-school Association and Illinois Young Men's Christian Association respectively, and is a member of the board of directors of Augustana college and theological seminary.

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