Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Fritsche, Herman 1866 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

               HERMAN FRITSCHE.

    Herman Fritsche, well-known farmer and stockman of Cottonwood township, this
county, proprietor of a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres seven miles
from New Ulm, his trading point, is a native son of Brown county, having been
born on the homestead farm where he still makes his home, May 25, 1866, son of
Ernest and Christina (Schumacher) Fritsche, both natives of Germany and pioneers
of Brown county.

    Ernest Fritsche came to the United States when eighteen years old,
proceeding directly from the port of New York, where he landed, to Chicago,
where he worked as a carpenter for a year, at the end of which time he came to
Minnesota, locating at St. Paul, where for nine months he worked as a carpenter.
He then came down state with a party of German homeseekers and stopped at New
Ulm, where he began working as a surveyor. He also for some time served as mail
carrier to and from Ft. Ridgely. He then bought a yoke of oxen and for some time
was engaged in the transfer business between New Ulm and St. Paul, hauling
merchandise and provisions, and presently homesteaded a quarter of a section of
land in Cottonwoon township, where he established his home, remaining there
until 1893, in which year he retired from the active labors of the farm and
moved to New Ulm. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, namely:
Minnie, who married A. Retzlaf, a hardware dealer at New Ulm; Louis, an engineer
at Minneapolis; Robert, a traveling salesman, with headquarters at Aberdeen,
South Dakota; Herman, the subject of this biographical sketch; Emil, who lives
at New Ulm; John, who lives with his father at New Ulm, and Emma, Alfred and
Louisa, deceased.

     Herman Fritsche was reared on the homestead farm in Cottonwood township,
the place of his birth, and has always lived there. His school days ended when
he was fourteen years old and thereafter he gave his attention to the work of
helping develop the home farm. He married in 1893 and, his father retiring from
the farm about that time, he bought the home place, which he still owns. To the
original quarter section he added an adjoining "eighty" and now owns a very
well-kept and quite profitable managed farm of two hundred and forty acres. Mr.
Fritsche feeds his grain and has made a specialty of stock raising, having
discovered the larger profits in that phase of farming. He has about eight
thousand dollars worth of improvements on his place and in 1913 erected a fine
new farm house, equipped with electric lights, a hot-water heating plant and all
modern appliances for comfortable housekeeping; he and his family being very
pleasantly situated. Mr. Fritsche has ever given a good citizen's attention to
the civic affairs of his home community and for six years served as township
assessor and for seven years as school director.

     In 1893, Herman Fritsche was united in marriage to Emma Kuelm, who was born
in Sigel township, this county, daughter of John and Dorothy Kuelm, natives of
Germany and pioneers of this county, early settlers in Sigel township, where
they reared a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters. To Mr. and
Mrs. Fritsche three children have been born, Alfred, Walter and Irma. They are
members of the German Lutheran church at New Ulm, Mr. Fritsche being one of the
trustees of the same, and take an active part in all community 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


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