44 Stoux City Academy of Science and Letters. 
AUGUST GRONINGER. 
By H. C. POWERS. 
During the past year Death has knocked at the door 
of the Academy of Science and Letters and called away 
some of our most honored and useful members. Of these 
the first to obey the summons to come up higher was our 
fellow member, Mr. August Groninger, whose portrait is 
on the opposite page. To those who knew him it will 
not be necessary for me to say much concerning his life 
among us. Coming as a pioneer in 1857 to the then little 
hamlet that was to grow into our present Sioux City, he 
took part in all the busy interests that have made our 
city what it now is. When he first settled among the 
pioneers in the little village on the Missouri, he at once 
began an active business life which he continued up to 
the time of his death. He was in the true sense of the 
word an honorable man, one of whom it could be said 
with truth, his word was as good as his bond. Quiet 
and unassuming in all his ways, his life made the world 
better for his having lived in it. His home life was 
especially dear to him. Here he and his kind wife gath- 
ered together mementoes of the many lands they visited, 
and their home is filled with beautiful specimens of art 
and nature. The book cases are filled with choice books, 
showing the literary taste and culture of the owners. 
The visitor can read in the simple and artistic furnish- 
ings of this home the story of a happy life lived here by 
Mr. and Mrs. Groninger in Sioux City. They were both 
active and useful members of the Scientific Association 
and its successor the Academy of Science and Letters, 
and we shall miss the genial presence of Mr. Groninger 
at all our future gatherings. 
Mr. Groninger was born in Elsfleth in the Grand 
Duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, on Christmas Eve., 
