Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Durbahn, Henry 1886 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

HENRY DURBAHN.

    Henry Durbahn, a painter of New Ulm, Brown county, was born in Nicollet
county, Minnesota, just across the river from New Ulm. He is a son of Juergen
and Wiebke (Langmach) Durbahn, both natives of Holstein, Germany, from which
country they came to the United States when young, but not together, and they
were married in Nicollet county, Minnesota, where they established their home on
a farm where they continued to reside until the father retired from active life
and removed to New Ulm where he spent the rest of his life. He was in the fight
with the Sioux Indians here in 1862. His family consisted of six children, of
whom Henry was the third in order of birth.

    Henry Durbahn received a common-school education and worked on the farm
during the vacation periods, until he was twenty-three years old, when he bought
the homestead and continued to operate it until 1898 when he quit farming,
selling his land and moving to New Ulm where he turned his attention to
painting, not long thereafter. In 1900 he built a large brick residence.

    On February 16, 1886, Henry Durbahn was married in Nicollet county to Mary
Gebhart, who was born on February 16, 1861, in the town of Kreuznach, Rhineland,
Germany. She was a daughter of John and Mary Gebhart. When about sixteen years
of age she left home, after her mother's death, and went to England where she
worked for two years, then came to the United States, her father, stepmother,
two sisters and a half-sister coming about two years later. Mrs. Durbahn died
September 30, 1904. She was the mother of three children, namely: Edwin, born on
May 1, 1887, attended school at St. Paul Park for a year, married Bertha Lieb
and they now live in Nicollet county; Adeline, June 5, 1889, keeps house for her
father. Walter, June 22, 1894, was graduated from the New Ulm then spent one
term at Stout's Institute, Peoria, Wisconsin; graduated at Menomonie, Wisconsin,
and is now a teacher of manual training at Stewartsville, Minnesota.

     Mr. Durbahn and family are members of the German Methodist Episcopal churh,
in which he is a trustee, a steward and superintendent of the Sunday school. His
wife was also an active church worker. He is independent in politics, voting for
the man rather than the party. He was school clerk while living in Nicollet
county for a number of years. He is a man of progressive ideas, hospitable and
highly respected.


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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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