The bull charged, goring Bert in the knee. In 1927, a Gazette story reported that Bert had been gored by a young bull when he slipped on wet grass while trying to loosen the bull’s halter on the animal. His widow, daughters Jennie and May and son Bert continued to live on the farm. When Hollenbeck died in September 1912 at the age of 81, he was buried in the family plot in Anamosa.

In 1890, the camp became “Camp Greene,” where several Iowa regiments took turns pitching tents. The Hollenbeck farm was a popular spot for picnickers who would travel by streetcars for a day of outdoor fun with swings, hammocks and croquet sets before returning home in the evening. Charles Hollenbeck and his son, Bert, also opened a jewelry store in the Cedar Rapids, where the population had grown to more than 10,000. When they retired in 1882, they moved to the Cedar Rapids farm with the two-story brick house. The Hollenbecks returned to Iowa and ran a general store in Anamosa for more than 20 years. When she returned to Pennsylvania, Hollenbeck followed, and the couple married there in 1861. He met Laura Welch, a Pennsylvania woman who had come to Marion in 1859 to care for an invalid uncle.

Hollenbeck had been lured West during the California Gold Rush before returning to Cedar Rapids.

More than 40 years later, most of the land would become Cedar Memorial Cemetery. (Gazette archives)ĭuring the building boom in Cedar Rapids in 1883, Charles Wesley Hollenbeck built a $4,500, two-story brick house on 80 acres along “The Boulevard,” the stretch of roadway between Cedar Rapids and Marion. 22, 1991, at Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. Craig Perry, owner of Perry's Wilderness Ranch in Walker, directs a camel to its place in the live Nativity scene Dec.

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