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Baer, Edward W
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Bakke, Jacob
488
Behnke, Albert
524
Bell, L. G., D. D. S. 321
Benham, Frederick F.
462
Bentzin, John
54
Berg, Henry J.
351
Berkner, Edward F.
476
Berkner, George.
543
Berndt, Julius
186
Bertrand, J. P. Edward. 417
Bertrand, John P.
379
Beussmann, Herman.
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Bingham, Reginald H
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Bobleter, Gen. Joseph
515
Frederickson, Adolph
323
Boock, Christian
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Brandt, Judge Ernst.
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Fritsche, Herman.
134
Brust, William
347
Buenger, Emil F
224
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Casperson, Martin.
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Christiansen, Wilfred.
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Crone, Carl.
155
Crone, Ferdinand
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Crone, Theodore
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Dahl, August C.
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Dehn, William
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Dittbenner, Hugo E.
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Dittbenner, Robert C.
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Doehne, George ..
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Durbahn, Henry
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Eggensperger, Adolph R.
365
Eibner, Willibald
109
Erickson, Aug. G.
316
Essig, John
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Flor, Albert D.
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Forster, John H.
210
Foster, George
563
Frank, Joseph, Jr
153
Frank, William.
130
Fritsche, Frederick, Sr.
336
Fritsche, Louis A., M. D.
368
Furth, P. H.
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Gaetke, John.
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Gareis, John
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Gastler, George O. 238
Goblirsch, Andrew J. 423
Graff, John P., D. V. S.
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Griebel, Joseph
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Gronau, John G ..
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Guggisberg, George 547
Gulbrandson, Lars.
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Hackbarth, Paul W
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Halvorson, Clement 495
Halvorson, Halvor 530
Hamann, Fred.
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Hammermeister, Theodore, M. D. 385
Hanson, Siver 533
Hauenstein, John, Jr. 115
Heimann, W. C. 295
Held, Herman
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Hellmann, Alfred 195
Henle, Anton.
132
Henle, Athanasius
228
Herzog, Joseph A.
269
Hofmeister, Prof. Joseph C.
473
Hohn, Rev. Christian 258
Holm, Frank.
483
Huevelman, William E.
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Humphrey, L, E.
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Ives, Luther C.
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Jensen, Chris
559
Johnson, Christian C. 555 Johnson, James. 566
Jones, George.
272
Julius, William J.
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Juni, Herman
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Kaiser, C. F. 180
Kiesling, Gottreich H. 124
Klein, Rev. James 327
Klossner, Hon. Jacob, Jr. 216
Knees, Albert
551
Knees, Bernhard 453
Knees, Philip
287
Koch, Ernst G.
459
Koehler, Eugene.
260
Koester, J. W.
503
Krause, Julius R.
343
Krook; Carl W. A
255
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Lambrecht, Gus
283
Landskron, Fred.
333
Lange, William
545
Lebert, Andrew J
291
Lehrer, Michael
480
Liesch, Philip.
304
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Lilleodden, Ole C.
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McPhee, William G.
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Manderfeld, Carl P.
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Manderfeld, Nicholas
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Manderfeld, Peter P.
240
Marti, George
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Mauch, George W. 176
Mayer, Rev. George
222
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Mecklenburg, Daniel. 499
Melzer, Julius
Meyer, Otto.
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Mickelson, Peter
557
Mikaelson, George. 451
Miller, Wesley C.
251
Minium, Floyd D.
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Mo, Hans
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Moe, Christ
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Mohr, Theodore.
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Moll, Henry.
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Mueller, Emil, D. V. S.
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Mueller, Martin.
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Mueller, William
325
Mullen, Michael.
435
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Neumann, John F.
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Niemann, Franz.
128
Norman, Rev. Amandus
509
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Ochs, J. Anton
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Olstad, Carl.
506
Oswald, Gottlieb.
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Oswald, Otto F.
74
Ouren, Alfred B.
447
Ouren, Anton O.
485
Ouren, Nels J.
389
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Palmer, Charles L
275
Peterson, James A.
441
Peterson, Ole C.
553
Pfaender, Major Albert.
144
Pfaender, William.
308
Pfaender, Col. William
400
Pfisterer, Frank W., M. D.
537
Pickle, A. H.
425
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Rasmussen, Emil.
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Raymond, Mattice
297
Retzlaff, Frank H
520
Roland, Peter.
387
Rowland, Nathan.
561
Ruemke, William F., Jr.
122
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Saffert, Andrew.
157
Schilling, Adolph
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Schlinkert, Rev. Robert.
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Schlumpberger, John
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Schnobrich, Frank C.
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Schrader, H. F.
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Schreyer, Carl
329
Schropfer, John M
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Schubert, Adolph
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Schultz, Benjamin
535
Schweiger, August.
583
Schwendinger, Alex.
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Seifert, Henry
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Seifert, Otto J., B. S., M. D.
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Siegel, John H
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Skinner, William
119
Spelbrink, Erwin E.
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Spelbrink, Louis
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Spellbrink, Christ.
395
Sperl, Joseph J.
454
Sprenger, Anton.
433
Sprenger, Christian
192
Stolz, Charles A.
182
Stegeman, Herman R.
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Stone, Iver K
501
Strickler, Ora C., M. D.
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Tappe, Otto.
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Thordson, Guttorm.
490
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Vetter, Benedict
253
Vogel, August.
151
Vogel, Joseph H., M. D.
539
Vogel, Major Louis G.
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Vogtel, Charles.
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Winkelmann, William J.
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Weilandt, Carl O
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Weiser, George B., M. D. 429
Wheeler, Rev. Edward F. 407
Zieske, John C.
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Wiebel, Theo
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Zschunke, Frank P.
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MARTIN MUELLER.
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MARTIN MUELLER.
Martin Mueller, of the well-known firm of Mueller & Aab, dealers in automobiles and proprietors of an extensive garage at New Ulm, is a native of that city and is said to have been the first white male child born in that now popu- lous and flourishing little city. He was born there on No- vember 10, 1855, son of Henry C. and Henrietta (Lose- mann) Mueller, natives of Germany, who were among the very earliest of this county and for many years prominent residents thereof, both of whom spent their last days here.
Herman C. Mueller was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was early orphaned, both his parents dying of cholera when he was a child. He was reared by kinsfolk and re- ceived an excellent education in the schools of his native land. He married Henrietta Losemann and in 1853 came to the United States. Upon their arrival in this country Henry C. Mueller and wife located in Chicago, where they remained for about two years, at the end of which time, in the summer of 1855, the year Brown county was erected as a civic unit, they came to Minnesota and settled in this county. Upon locating here Henry C. Mueller pre-empted a tract of land at the edge of the New Ulm town site and began clearing and farming the same. Later he disposed
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of that place and moved across the river into Courtland township, where he established his family on a quarter of a section of land and where he became a prosperous and substantial farmer. During the Indian uprising in 1862 he enlisted for service against the savage redskins and served as a soldier through that troublous period. He took an active interest in community affairs and for years was an efficient member of the school board. About the year 1900 Henry C. Mueller retired from the active labors of the farm and shortly afterward he and his wife moved to New Ulm, where their last days were spent, his death occurring in 1904, he then being seventy-four years of age. His widow survived him for several years, she having been seventy- six years of age at the time of her death in 1907. They were the parents of eight children, namely: Martin, the subject of this biographical sketch; Mary, wife of Charles A. John- son, of St. Peter, in the neighboring county of Nicollet; Henry and Herman, twins, who are residents of Courtland township; Frank, a farmer, living near Gary, in Norman county, this state; William, of New Ulm; Louis, deceased, and Dr. Emil Mueller, of New Ulm.
Martin Mueller received his education in the public schools and remained on the home farm until he was well grown. He then began his business career as a clerk in the store of John F. Neumann and Michael Mullen, with whom he remained for several years, at the end of which time he began working for Bingham Brothers, in the grain and lumber business, after awhile being sent to Essig, this county, where for twenty years he acted as manager of the Bingham Brothers hardware and lumber business at that place. He then returned to New Ulm and for four years
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had charge of his father's place, after which he formed a partnership with William Aab in the general automobile and garage business at New Ulm and has ever since been thus engaged, the firm being one of the best-known dealers in that line in this section of the state.
On November 17, 1881, Martin Mueller was united in marriage to Amanda Nagel, daughter of August Nagel and wife, who died in October of the year following, and in 1883 Mr. Mueller married, secondly, Amelia Toberer, who was born in New Ulm, daughter of John C. and Louisa (Nagel) Toberer, natives of Germany, the former of whom died in New Ulm in 1911. John C. Toberer and wife were the parents of five children, two of whom, Anna and Al- freda, are still living. To Martin and Amelia (Toberer) Mueller four children were born, as follow: Louisa, who married Daniel L. Williams, of Cambria, this state, and has one child, a son, David M .; Hertha, who married John Hauenstein, of New Ulm, and has three children, Richard, Laura and Margaret; Max, who, following his graduation from the New Ulm high school took a course in the technical side of the automobile business, married Hannah Alex and is now conducting a garage at Elysian, in LeSueur county, this state, and Esther, who married Fred Dower, a farmer of Cottonwood township, this county, and has three chil- dren, Walter, Melvin and Thelma.
Mrs. Amelia Mueller died in 1908, at the age of forty- five years, and on September 29, 1912, Mr. Mueller married, thirdly, Anna Schaeffer, who was born in St. Paul, this state, daughter of Christian Shaeffer and wife, natives of Germany, both now dead, the former of whom was born in Hessen and the latter in Prussia, and the parents of five
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children, two of whom are now living, Mrs. Mueller and Helena. Mr. Mueller is a member of the New Ulm Lutheran Society, taking an active interest in the affairs of that popu- lar organization, and is held in high regard by his many friends. Mr. Mueller also is a member of the Ancient Or- der of United Workmen, of the Sons of Hermann and of the Modern Woodmen and takes a warm interest in the affairs of all these organizations.
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JUDGE ERNST BRANDT.
Judge Ernst Brandt, former judge of probate for Brown county, former county commissioner and for twenty- two years editor of the newspaper Fortschritt, at New Ulm, now living retired from the more active duties of life in that city, is a native of Germany, having been born in Roga, by Friedland, Mecklenberg-Strelitz, October 1, 1838, son of Carl Christian and Wilhelmina (Plath) Brandt, both na- tives of Friedland, who were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others having been Charles C., Fritz and Wil- helmina.
Carl Christian Brandt was the youngest of the four children born to his parents, Julius Brandt and wife, the others having been August, Eda and Theresa. Julius Brandt was a school master and took an active part in local church work in his native land. Both he and his wife died in Germany. Carl C. Brandt was carefully reared and re- ceived an excellent education, for some time in his young manhood having been a school teacher in his native land. He was trained to the millwright's craft and became a very proficient artisan in that form of industry. He married in the Fatherland Wilhelmina Plath, youngest of the three children born to her parents, the others having been Hans, who died in New Ulm, this county, and Herman, who is now living, at the age of eighty-four years, in Yakima, Wash- ington.
In the year 1852 Carl C. Brandt and his family came to
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the United States, locating at Cleveland, Ohio, where they remained until 1856, in which year they came to Minnesota, locating in Brown county, thus being among the pioneers of this county. Carl C. Brandt homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in Sigel township and there established his home, quickly becoming recognized as one of the leading pioneers of the county. He had brought a complete set of millwright's tools with him from Cleveland and shortly after settling here erected on his farm the first grist-mill ever constructed in the state of Minnesota, This mill was operated by wind power and its great wings for many years were familiar objects in the landscape there. The stone for the buhrs of the mill was taken from the bed of Cottonwood river and for years this substantial old mill faithfully per- formed its office of grinding the corn of the neighbors for miles about in that vicinity. In addition to his extensive farming and milling operations Carl C. Brandt was active in promoting the general interests of the new community and took a prominent part in civic affairs. He was for years a member of the school board in Sigel township and served the county for some time in the capacity of county commis- sioner. When well past middle age he and his wife moved from the farm and located in New Ulm, where they spent the remainder of their lives in the comfortable frame house they erected on the site now occupied by the residence of Doctor Fritsche. Mrs. Brandt died at the age of sixty- eight, her husband surviving for some years, he being eighty-one years of age at the time of his death.
Ernst Brandt was about nineteen years old when he came to Brown county with his parents in 1856 and he at once entered actively into the pioneer life of the community.
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At that time the section of the county in which the family settled had not been organized as a township and he was later largely instrumental in setting up a proper township organization. In the fall of 1860 he married, continuing to make his home on his father's farm, and was living there when the Indian insurrection broke out in 1862. When it came time to organize the township the privilege of giving a name to the new civic unit was accorded him and he promptly named it Sigel, in honor of Gen. Franz Sigel, of Civil War fame. In 1870 he and his family left the farm and moved into New Ulm, in order to gain better educa- tional facilities for the children. For five years after locat- ing in New Ulm Mr. Brandt was the editor and publisher of the New Ulm Review. He then took charge of the New Ulm Fortschritt and for twenty-two years was the editor and publisher of that paper. In the meantime he had been elected judge of probate for Brown county and for twelve years served very efficiently in that important capacity. He then was elected justice of the peace and was continuously re-elected to that office until he declined longer to accept the nomination after a service of twenty-five years, since which time he has been living quietly retired from the more active duties of life, he and his wife enjoying, in their tran- quil old age many evidences of the esteem and affection in which they are held by the entire community, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all contributing to make enjoyable the pleasant and quiet "evening time" of their lives.
On September 16, 1860, in Jefferson county, Missouri, Ernst Brandt was united in marriage to Eliza Vendlandt, who was born in Carlferde, Braunschweich, Germany, Janu-
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ary 23, 1840, daughter of William and Caroline (Lipke) Vendlandt, who came to the United States in 1853 and for a time made their home in Cleveland, Ohio, later moving to St. Louis, later moving onto a farm in Jefferson county, Missouri, whither Mr. Brandt went to claim the bride whose heart he had won during the time they both lived in Cleve- land. Later William Vendlandt and his wife moved back to St. Louis, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the former being above seventy years of age at the time of his death and the latter seventy-three. They were the par- ents of eight children who grew to maturity, those besides Mrs. Brandt having been William, Mary, August, Lena, Friedericka, Antonia and Wilhelmina. The elder William Vendlandt was the youngest of the three sons born to his parents, Christopher Vendlandt and wife, the others having been Friederich and August, and his wife was the youngest of the four children born to her parents, the others having been Dorothea, Conrad and Alvena.
To Ernst and Eliza (Vendlandt) Brandt seven children have been born, as follow: Charles, who died in infancy at St. Paul, whither his parents had fled at the time of the Indian outbreak in 1862; Ernst, who died unmarried in 1908; August, who died unmarried in 1901; Robert, who married Olga Schleuder and died in 1912, leaving a daugh- ter, Elvira, who, after her graduation from the Springfield high school, took a course in the State Normal School and is now teaching; Agnes, who died at the age of fourteen; Eliza, who died at the age of twelve, and Wilhelmina, who married Hugo O. Schleuder, a jeweler and optician of New Ulm, and has seven children, Victor, Walter, Ernst, Lessing, Hugo, Lorna and Altha. Judge Brandt is the only surviv-
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ing charter member of the New Ulm Turnverein, in the affairs of which he ever has taken a warm interest. He is a member of Charity Lodge No. 98, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and has occupied every chair in the blue lodge and been a representative of his local lodge in the Minnesota grand lodge a number of times. He formerly was a Republican, but voted for the Democratic electors during Mr. Bryan's races for the presidency. In addition to his service on the probate bench and in the office of jus- tice of the peace, Judge Brandt also has served the county as a county commissioner and in former days was very active in extending the benefits of education hereabout by his efforts in behalf of the general elevation of educational standards throughout this part of the state.
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WILLIAM E. HUEVELMAN.
William E. Huevelman, general manager and treasurer of the Minnesota Seed Company, of New Ulm, this county, and who also is one of the directors of that enterprising and thriving concern, is a native of Germany, having been born in Westphalia, the northwestern province of Prussia, Feb- ruary 28, 1861, son of Rudolph and Minnie Gerhart (Von- derMark) Huevelman, natives of that same province, farm- ing people, who spent all their lives there, the latter dying in 1869 and the former in 1875. They were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom are still living, but of these the subject of this sketch is the only one living in Brown county.
William E. Huevelman went to school until he was fourteen years of age, at which time he began working as a farm hand and was thus engaged in his native province until he was twenty years of age. He then came to the United States, proceeding almost directly to Minnesota and locat- ing at New Ulm, where he found employment in the Aufter- heide brick yard. After a year of that employment he was engaged as a clerk in a drug store, where he remained for a year, at the end of which time he was engaged as a clerk in the general store of John F. Neuman, where he remained for nine years. He then went into business for himself, in partnership with C. F. Ruemke, and was thus engaged for about six years, at the end of which time failing health com- pelled him to sell his interest in the store and get out into the open. For nine years thereafter he spent his summers as a driver of a sprinkling wagon on the streets of New Ulm.
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In the meantime he had become interested in the Minnesota Seed Company at New Ulm, being a stockholder in the same, and since then has given his undivided attention to the company, he also being one of the directors of the company, and since them has given his undivided attention to the growing interests of the company. The Minnesota Seed Company handles all kinds of field and garden seeds, its trade covering all parts of the Northwest.
On October 28, 1885, William E. Huevelman was united in marriage to Caroline Weddindorf, daughter of Herman and Margaret Weddindorf, and to this union two children have been born, Herbert H., who is with the Milwaukee Electric Light and Street Railway Company at Milwaukee, and Waldemar, who is connected with the Citizens State Bank at New Ulm, Minnesota. Mr. Huevelman is a Repub- lican and has long given his close attention to local political affairs, but has never been included in the office-seeking class.
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ORA C. STRICKLER, M. D.
Dr. Ora C. Strickler, for more than a quarter of a cen- tury a practicing physician at New Ulm, this county, and one of the best-known and most influential men in the county, is a native of the British dominion across the border to the north, having been born in the town of Markham, in Ontario, Canada, January 7, 1863, son of Daniel and Eliza- beth (Henderson) Strickler, the former a native of Penn- sylvania and the latter of Canada, both of whom spent their last days in the state of Michigan.
Daniel Strickler was born in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, son of Abram and Elizabeth (Ramer) Strickler, na- tives of that same county, farming people, both of German descent and holding to the Mennonite faith, the former of whom died there, his widow spending her last days in Can- ada. They were the parents of four children, Daniel Strick- ler having had two brothers and a sister, John, Abram and Elizabeth. Daniel Strickler was reared on the paternal farm in Pennsylvania and as a young man emigrated to Canada with a Mennonite colony which left Pennsylvania and settled in the Markham neighborhood in Ontario, and there he lived for fifty years. He married Elizabeth Hen- derson, who was born in Canada, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Lucas) Henderson, natives of the Dominion, farming people, the former of whom lived to the age of sixty-five and the latter of whom died before middle age. Andrew Henderson and wife were the parents of six chil- dren, William, Andrew, Joseph, Mrs. Jane Dresser, Mrs.
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Mary Ann Wilson and Elizabeth. In their declining years Daniel Strickler and wife moved from Canada to Michigan, living for awhile at Ann Arbor and later at Lansing, in which latter city Mr. Strickler died in 1904, at the age of eighty-four. His widow survived him for three years, her death occurring in 1907, she then being sixty-seven years of age. They were earnest members of the Christian church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, namely: Anna, deceased, who was the wife of Meno Nighswander; Susan, wife of Elijah Wismer, of Markham, Ontario; John D., deceased; Christina, widow of B. S. Chilcott, of Lansing, Michigan; Dr. Ora C., the im- mediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Dr. Abram Franklin Strickler, of Sleepy Eye, this county.
Following his graduation from the high school at Mark- ham, Ontario, Ora C. Strickler entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from the medi- cal department of that excellent old institution on June 25, 1885. Thus admirably equipped for the practice of his noble profession, Doctor Strickler straightway came to Min- nesota and located at New Ulm, where he opened an office and where he ever since has been engaged in practice, dur- ing that time becoming one of the best-known physicians in this section of the state. He took a post-graduate course of one year in the medical department of Berlin University in 1888-89. Doctor Strickler keeps fully abreast of the latest advances in the practice of his profession and is a member of the Brown County Medical Society, the Minnesota State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, in the affairs of all of which organizations he takes a warm interest. In the midst of an active and arduous practice he
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has found time to devote a good citizen's attention to the public service and for years served as a member of the board of education in New Ulm, his service in that connection proving of large value in elevating the standard of educa- tion in that city. Doctor Strickler stands high in his pro- fession in this state and in 1898 was president of the Minne- sota state board of medical examiners, and for six years, 1900-06, was a member of the state board of regents. He is a Republican and ever since locating in this county has given his most thoughtful and intelligent attention to local politi- cal affairs, long having been regarded as one of the leaders of that party in this section of the state. Doctor Strickler also takes an active interest in the more material affairs of the community and is a director of the State Bank of New Ulm and vice-president of the State Bank of Courtland in the neighboring county of Nicollet.
On December 5, 1887, Dr. Ora C. Strickler was united in marriage to Emily Doehne, who was born in Brown county, daughter of George and Anna (Roeck) Doehne, both natives of Germany the former of whom was born in Wal- deck and the latter in Munich, and early settlers of Brown county, they having located at New Ulm in the days before the Indian outbreak, George Doehne, who is still living at New Ulm, is an honored veteran of the Civil War and an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were the parents of five children, William, George, Emily, Clara and Louise, all of whom are living save the first-born.
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