Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Buenger, Emil F. 1877 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

EMIL F. BUENGER.

    Emil F. Buenger, well-known furniture dealer and undertaker at New Ulm, this
county, enjoys the unique distinction of carrying on his extensive business on
the site of the place of his birth, he having been born in the building then
occupying the site of his present large and well-stocked store building on
September 22,1877, son of Louis and Henrietta (Ipps) Buenger, both natives of
Germany, the former of whom, a pioneer furniture dealer in New Ulm, i4 still
living in that city, having been retired from business life since 1896.

    Louis Buenger was born in Hanover, the second in order of birth of the three
children born to his parents, he having had a brother, Henry, and a sister, Mrs.
William Jurgens. His parents were substantial people in their native land and
spent all their lives there. When he was fourteen years old Louis Buenger joined
a party of Germans that was then emigrating to the United States and upon
arriving in this country proceeded to Cincinnati, where he was engaged in the
building trades until 1864, in which year he came to Minnesota, settling at New
Ulm, where, in partnership with William Ruemke, he engaged in general house
building, the firm becoming quite successful contractors, many of the most
substantial buildings in the rapidly growing town of that day having been
erected by them. Not long after locating in New Ulm Louis Buenger married
Henrietta Ipps, who was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and who had come to America
when a girl, with her parents, John Ipps and wife, and her two brothers, Henry
and Charles, the family locating in New Ulm, being among the early settlers of
that place, John Ipps spending the rest of his life there, he being ninety-one
years of age at the time of his death, his wife dying at St. Paul.

     In 1874 Louis Buenger gave up his work as a building contractor and engaged
in the furniture business in New Ulm, establishing his store on the site it
still occupies under the present proprietorship of his son, and made his home in
rooms above the store room. There he continued in business, enlarging the store
as the growing demands of the business necessitated, until 1896, in which yeare
[sic] he retired from business and his son, Louis J. Buenger became his
successor. In addition to being one of the leading business men of New Ulm in an
early day, Louis Buenger was also one of the leaders in the civic life of the
developing community and for years served the public very usefully in the
capacity of a city councilman, He and his wife were devoted Lutherans and were
among the leaders in the work of organizing the congregation of that communion
in New Ulm, having been enrolled among the charter members of the church there.
Mrs. Buenger died in 1903, at the age of fifty-five years, and her husband still
survives her. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Louis J., who now
makes his home in Minneapolis; Emma, wife of Fred Backer, of New Ulm; Anna, wife
of Robert Fritsche, of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Charles H., of Kenosha,
Wisconsin; Emil F., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch; Matilda,
wife of Paul Hackbarth, of New Ulm; Otto, of Ortenville, this state, and two who
died in early childhood.

     Emil F. Buenger grew to manhood in New Ulm and early learned the details of
the furniture business in his father's store. Upon completing the course in the
public schools of his home town he took a comprehensive business course in the
Dr. Martin Luther College and was thereafter a valuable aid to his father in the
latter's store. Upon the retirement of the elder Buenger in 1896 and the taking
over of the business by the elder son, Louis J., Emil P. Buenger continued his
connection with the store, under the direction of his brother, until 1900, in
which year he went to Lamberton, where he and his brother, Louis, had
established a branch store and there he remained for two years, managing the
latter store. In 1902 he returned to New Ulm and was engaged there in the
offices of the Eagle Roller Mill Company until 1912, in which year he bought the
old furniture store from his brother, Louis, and has since then been conducting
the business alone, making a fine success of the same. The store occupies three
floors and a basement and Mr. Buenger carries a large and first-class stock of
goods. His undertaking department also is well equipped, the business in that
department being carried on in full accordance with the latest and best approved
practices of the modern funeral director.

     On August 3, 1904, Emil P. Buenger was united in marriage to Louisa
Vogelpohl, who was born in New Ulm, just one block from the Buenger furniture
store, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Schroer) Vogelpohl, the former of whom died
in 1901 and the latter of whom is still living. To this union three children
have been born, Esther, Edmund and Verna. Mr. and Mrs. Buenger are members of
the Lutheran church and are held in high regard by their many friends throughout
the county. Mr. Buenger is a Republican and takes a good citizen's interest in
local political affairs, but has never been included in the office-seeking
class. He is public spirited and enterprising and occupies a high place in local
business circles.


Additional Comments:
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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