Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Dittbenner, Hugo E. 1885 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 27, 2014, 1:03 pm Source: See Below Author: L. A. Fritsche HUGO E. DITTBENNER. Hugo E. Dittbenner, former justice of the peace in and for Eden township, this county, and a well-known and progressive young farmer of that township, proprietor of a well-kept farm of one hundred and twenty acres about seven miles east of the town of Morgan, which is his trading point, is a native son of Brown county, having been born on a pioneer farm in the township in which he still makes his home, February 26,1885, son of William E. and Fredericka (Verpel) Dittbenner, both natives of Germany. William E. Dittbenner was about seven years old when he came to the United States with his parents in 1860, the family landing at the port of New York. After about a year spent in that city the family came to Minnesota and settled in Brown county. The elder Dittbenner homesteaded a farm in Cottonwood township, where, and in New Ulm, he spent the rest of his life, and where William E. Dittbenner lived until 1874, in which year he pre-empted a quarter of a section of land in Eden township, where he established his home and where he reared his family. He was a good farmer and he and his wife, the latter of whom was a member of one of the pioneer German families of Brown county, prospered in their undertakings, being, at the time of their retirement from the farm in 1907, the owners of a fine farm of six hundred acres in Eden township, long having been regarded as among the most substantial residents of that community. Upon retiring from the farm they moved to Morgan, where William E. Dittbenner died in 1908 and his widow moved to New Ulm where she is still living. They were she parents of nine children, Ferd, Matilda, George, Emil, Willie, Adolph, Hugo, Fredericka and Herbert. Hugo E. Dittbenner was reared on the paternal farm in Eden township, receiving his education in the district school in the neighborhood of his home. He completed the course in the local school at the age of sixteen and thereafter remained on the farm assisting his father in the development of the same. After his marriage in 1908, he rented the home farm for awhile and then bought one hundred and twenty acres of the same and on that portion has made his home ever since, being now very pleasantly situated. He has made about five thousand dollars worth of improvements on the place and he and his family have a very comfortable home. Mr. Dittbenner is a Republican and from the time he attained his majority has taken an earnest interest in civic affairs. For some time he served as school director in his district and in 1908 was elected to the office of justice of the peace. In 1908 Hugo E. Dittbenner was united in marriage to Theresa Fischer, who was born in this county, daughter of Adolph and Bertha (Zugenhagen) Fischer, early settlers of Eden township, and to this union three children have been born, Veena, Hillary and Willard. Mr. and Mrs. Dittbenner are members of the Methodist church and are active in all local good works. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/brown/bios/dittbenn496gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb