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FRED AUFDERHEIDE.

    Fred Aufderheide, well-known manufacturer of brick and tile, president of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank of New Ulm and one of the most energetic and
enterprising business men in this section of the state, is a native of Germany,
having been born near the town of Langerich, in Westphalia, December 8, 1853,
son of Jacob and Sophia (Beineke) Aufderheide, both natives of that same
district, the former of whom died in his native land in 1864, at the age of
fifty-four years, his widow, twenty years later, in 1884, following her children
to America and locating at New Ulm, whence she later went to Minneapolis, where
her death occurred at the age of eighty-seven. She was the youngest of the four
children born to her parents, the others having been Rudolph, Ernest and
William. She had borne to her husband six children, namely: Adolph, deceased;
Mrs. Marie Roosevelt, deceased; Bernardina, deceased, who was the wife of
William Wiethoff; Sophia, wife of Frank Peterson, of Minneapolis; Ernest, of
Wanda, this state, and Fred, the subject of this sketch.

    In 1870, he then being seventeen years of age, Fred Aufderheide came to the
United States and located in Cincinnati, where he perfected himself in a
practical knowledge of brick-making. In 1875 he came to Minnesota and located at
New Ulm, where he started a brick yard, which he ever since has operated and in
which business he has been very successful. From a small plant, with which he
began business in this section, Mr. Aufderheide has developed his brick and tile
factory to its present extensive proportions, long having been recognized as one
of the most important manufacturers in this line in this part of the state.
There are fifty-eight persons on the pay-roll and the plant annually turns out
about three million brick, besides a large quantity of tile amounting to about
twenty-five million feet yearly. In addition to looking after his extensive
manufacturing interests, Mr. Aufderheide has for years taken a warm interest in
the general business affairs of the New Ulm neighborhood and has been more or
less interested in several enterprises of consequence. He also has extensive
land holdings and is regarded as one of the most substantial citizens hereabout,
owning a farm of three hundred and twenty acres in this county and a farm of
four hundred and ninety acres in Murray county. In 1914 he aided in the
organization of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of New Ulm, capital stock, fifty
thousand dollars and surplus, ten thousand dollars, and was elected president of
the new financial concern, a position which he now holds, in the administration
of the affairs of which office he has gained a high position in financial and
banking circles throughout this part of the state.

     On May 25,1881, Fred Aufderheide was united in marriage to Eliza
Schapekalm, who was born in the town of Gertha, Hanover, October 9, 1857,
daughter of Gerhardt and Maria Adelheit (Kaiser) Schapekalm, both natives of
that same section of Germany and the parents of four children, Mrs. Aufderheide
having a sister, Mary, and two brothers, Herman and Gerhardt. Mrs. Schapekalm
died in her native land in 1862 and Mr. Schapekalm and his children then came to
the United States, settling at New Ulm, where Mr. Schapekalm spent the remainder
of his life, being seventy-one years of age at the time of his death. Eliza
Schapekalm was thirteen years old when she came to this country and she grew to
womanhood at New Ulm, where she married Mr. Aufderheide. To this union five
children have been born, as follow: William, who died at the age of seventeen
years; Emma, who married Arthur Book, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of New Ulm, and has three children, Norbert, Gertrude and Esther; Carl, a
partner in his father's extensive business affairs, who married Clara Weddendorf
and has one child, a son, Carl; Herman, also a partner in his father's business,
and Hertha, who is at home. Mr. and Mrs. Aufderheide are members of the Lutheran
church and their children have been reared in that faith. The family takes an
active part in the general social and cultural activities of New Ulm and
vicinity and is held in high regard throughout this whole region.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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