Company G.
Ernest A. Klingenberg was born in Hanover, Germany, on the 11th day of January, 1844. Being the seventh son he was named after the King of Hanover, thereby procuring the privilege of obtaining a military education by the government. Unfortunately the father met with an accidental death when Ernest was but three years old, and the mother died when he was but eleven years old. Being left an orphan at eleven, and his relatives in America, the guardian received instructions to send him over to them, which he did in September, 1855. Received private instructions for one year in St. Louis and Dubuque, after which he attended the public school until fourteen years of age, when he took employment as grocer's clerk: and at the age of seventeen years and five months, on the 13th of June, 1861, enlisted in Company G, First Iowa Cavalry. Commissioned First Lieutenant in same company, January 3d, 1865, and mustered out at Austin. Texas, February 15th, 1866.
After returning home at Dubuque he took a course in Bayliss Commercial College, after which he started into the grocery business; and in the summer of 1868 the Rev. James S. Rand, former Chaplain of the First Iowa Cavalry, paid Dubuque a visit, and persuaded Ernest to go into the insurance business, in which business he is up to date, having removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1874. His family consists of a wife, son and daughter, the latter married in 1887.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 340
Ernest A. Klingenberg was born in Hanover, Germany, on the 11th day of January, 1844. Being the seventh son he was named after the King of Hanover, thereby procuring the privilege of obtaining a military education by the government. Unfortunately the father met with an accidental death when Ernest was but three years old, and the mother died when he was but eleven years old. Being left an orphan at eleven, and his relatives in America, the guardian received instructions to send him over to them, which he did in September, 1855. Received private instructions for one year in St. Louis and Dubuque, after which he attended the public school until fourteen years of age, when he took employment as grocer's clerk: and at the age of seventeen years and five months, on the 13th of June, 1861, enlisted in Company G, First Iowa Cavalry. Commissioned First Lieutenant in same company, January 3d, 1865, and mustered out at Austin. Texas, February 15th, 1866.
After returning home at Dubuque he took a course in Bayliss Commercial College, after which he started into the grocery business; and in the summer of 1868 the Rev. James S. Rand, former Chaplain of the First Iowa Cavalry, paid Dubuque a visit, and persuaded Ernest to go into the insurance business, in which business he is up to date, having removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1874. His family consists of a wife, son and daughter, the latter married in 1887.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 340
