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Author: L. A. Fritsche

P. H. FURTH.

    P. H. Furth, well-known general insurance agent at New Ulm, this county, and
until a few years ago a progressive farmer and stockman of Milford township, is
a native of Germany. He was born on September 4, 1870, son of M. J. and Barbara
D. (Stotfelt) Furth, both natives of the Fatherland. His mother died in 1879.
She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom six are still living, M. J.,
John A., Joseph, P. H., Mrs. Christina Golb and Mrs. Barbara Phillips. In the
early eighties the elder M. J. Furth came to the United States with his
children. He located in Chicago, where he became employed with the Chicago Free
Press and continued thus engaged for years, or until his retirement from active
service. He is still living in Chicago, aged ninety-three years.

    P. H. Furth was about twelve years old when he came to this country with his
father and the schooling which was interrupted upon leaving Germany was resumed
in Chicago schools. Upon leaving school he took service with the Rascher Map
Company of Chicago and later became associated with the Sanborn Map Company,
with which concern he was actively connected for twenty-five years, his work in
that connection taking him to all parts of the country, with the exception of
the Pacific coast, drawing maps of cities for the special information of
insurance companies, with particular reference to the data upon which rates are
based. During his travels through this part of Minnesota Mr. Furth had become
much impressed with conditions here-about and in 1908 he came to Brown county
and located on a farm in Milford township, where he engaged in general farming
and stock raising, paying special attention to the raising of Holstein cattle,
having some of the best graded cattle in the county. He put about three thousand
dollars worth of improvements on his place and farmed there until 1913, in which
year he left the farm and moved to New Ulm, where he entered the general fire-
and life-insurance business, in which he ever since has been quite successfully
engaged. He also continues his connection with the Sanborn Map Company and in
addition to looking after his extensive affairs gives his earnest attention to
the general interests of the city. Mr. Furth is a Republican and during his
residence in Milford township served as justice of the peace. He also served for
two years as assessor and clerk of school district No. 50.

     In 1900 P. H. Furth was united in marriage to Mary Dorothy (Metzen)
Richartz, daughter of George and Katherine (Sehroeder) Metzen. To this union no
children have been born, but Mrs. Furth has a son by her former marriage to
William Richartz, Theodore Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Furth are devoted members of the
Catholic church and are warmly interested in parish affairs. Mr. Furth is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and takes an active interest in the affairs of
that organization.

     George and Katherine (Schroeder) Metzen, parents of Mrs. P. H. Furth, were
both born and reared in Prussia, Germany. They were married in their native land
and two years later, in 1854, they came to America and located first at Detroit,
Michigan, where they lived one year. They then went to Hudson, Wisconsin, where
they stayed two years, then moved to LeSeuer, and three years later came to
Brown county and located on a farm in Sigel township during the summer of 1862,
just prior to the Sioux Indian outbreak. During the uprising Mr. and Mrs. Metzen
and their children sought safety in New Ulm, and after the danger was over they
moved to a homestead in Cottonwood township, where they lived until the death of
Mr. Metzen in 1898. Mrs. Metzen then made her home with her sons Joseph and
William in Milford township and later lived with a daughter in Chicago until
1913, when she came to live with her daughter in New Ulm. Here Mrs. Katherine
(Schroeder) Metzen died on November 20, 1915, at the age of eighty-five years.
Mr. and Mrs. Metzen were the parents of eight children, namely: Mrs. John Wehye,
who died in 1880; Nick, Joseph, William and Mrs. P. H. Furth, who reside in New
Ulm; Mrs. Paul J. Nuessle, of Minneapolis; Mrs. Kate Ball, of Livingston,
Montana, and Mrs. A. J. Furth, of Chicago.


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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