- ARNOLD GLOUDEMANS, who has conducted a dairy farm in Grand Chute township for a number of years, is a son of Adrian and Hannah (Van Roy) Gloudemans, and was born in Little Chute, Wisconsin, December 6, 1864. Mr. Gloudemans' father was born May 12, 1822, and his mother January 12, 1835, both in Holland, and they came to America in 1854, Mr. Gloudemans' first employment being at the old Park Hotel at ------------------, where he continued for one year. He spent a like period as a wheat buyer for a grain man, and then located on a farm two miles north of Little Chute, which he cleared from the wilderness, put in a state of cultivation and continued to farm for twenty years, at the end of which time he sold it to his oldest son, and moved to the village of Little Chute. He is still making his home there and is in the best of health despite his advanced years. His wife died October 20, 1910. They were the parents of ten children: John, in the shoe and hardware business in the village of Little Chute; Harriet, who died in 1904; Martin, who died in 1887, two years after his marriage; Arnold; Peter, who died in childhood; Peter (2), Anton and Dinah, triplets, the first a merchant of Little Chute, the second died at the age of three months, and Dinah the wife of Arnold Vendloape, a farmer on Vandenbroek township; Mary, the wife of George Guerts, a farmer of Kaukauna township; and Henry, a merchant of Chilton, Calumet county. Arnold Gloudemans attended school in Little Chute township, and until he was twenty-three years of age divided his time between the home farm and working in the woods. He then began to work for other farmers in the neighborhood of the homestead, and continued to do so until his marriage, when he engaged in the retail liquor business in Little Chute. One and one-half years later he gave up this business and for one year worked on the farm of his wife's mother and succeeding which he was a coachman in Appleton for four years, when he bought the farm on which he now resides. He has eighty acres of land, most of which he devotes to dairy farming, having a fine herd of cattle, principally Holsteins, and he sells his product to a nearby cheese factory. He was married February 19, 1889, to Mary Hurkman, born in Little Chute township, November 23, 1867, daughter of Arnold and Henrietta (Bersen) Hurkman, natives of Holland, the father born May 5, 1828, and the mother March 15, 1836. They came to America in about 1852 and located in Appleton, where Mr. Hurkman worked for others one year and then purchased a farm in Kaukauna township, on which he lived for about five years. After renting this farm out, he bought another place in Little Chute township, where he continued to live for about twenty years, at which time he removed to another property in the same township, on which his death occurred in about 1886. His widow survived him a number of years, passing away December 27, 1910. They had a family of six children: Anna, the wife of Grego Deering, a resident of Kaukauna township; Mrs. Gloudemans; Nellie, who married Albert Vandenberg, a millwright of Little Chute; and John, Henry and Bennie, who are residing on the old homestead, engaged in farming and dairying. Mr. and Mrs. Gloudemans have had eight children: Anna, born December 28, 1889; Ben, March 30, 1892; Celia, March 24, 1894; Martha, September 11, 1896; Frank, November 23, 1900; Theresa, January 7, 1903; Loretta, November 25, 1906; and Irene, April 10, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Gloudemans are members of the Roman Catholic church at Little Chute. In political matters Mr. Gloudemans is a democrat, but he has been too busy with his farming activities to engage in public affairs to any extent.
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1864 - 1933 (69 years)
1870 Census
