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Sioux Center is located at (43.076546, −96.173214 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.31 square miles (16.34 km 2), all land. [5]
van der Ploeg is a Dutch surname meaning "from the plow". It can be a metonymic occupational surname, originally referring to a farmer or a bookbinder (a book binding cutter is known as a (snij)ploeg). [1] Alternatively, it may be a toponymic surname, e.g., referring to a house with the sign of a plow. [1] Notable people with the surname include:
Lawrence Donald Soens (August 26, 1926 – November 1, 2021) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.In 2008, the Diocese of Davenport in Iowa announced multiple credible accusations that Soens had sexually abused children as a priest.
In either 1902 or 1903, Lee D. Miller established his funeral home and a livery barn on South Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. In 1923, Miller hired local architectural firm Perkins & McWayne to build a new, larger facility on the property, as Miller had just incorporated two other local funeral homes—Burnside Funeral Home and Joseph Nelson Funeral Home—into his.
Al Sturgeon is a native of Sioux City, Iowa, born on 14 February 1956.He graduated from East High School and Morningside College in his hometown. Sturgeon was then employed as a consultant to the Northwest Regional Library, and also worked in production for the Continental Baking Company for six and a half years before winning his first statewide legislative election in 1980, representing ...
Johannes Petrus Maria "Jan" van der Ploeg (4 July 1909, in Nijmegen – 4 August 2004, in Nijmegen) was a Dutch Dominican specialist in Hebrew, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Syriac manuscript research. He was Professor of Old Testament and Semitic studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen from 1951 to 1979, after which time he spent most of ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of the Vanderbilt business dynasty.. The progenitor of the Vanderbilt family was Jan Aertszoon or Aertson (1620–1705), a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant to the Van Kouwenhoven family in 1650.
J.M. Cleland (1896–1898)† he died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1913, but his body was brought to Sioux City for his funeral. [ 13 ] John Herbert Quick (1898–1900)† as a lawyer and businessman, Quick wrote 18 novels, one of which became the basis of the movie Double Trouble (1915 film) .