Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Griebel, Joseph 1880 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

JOSEPH GRIEBEL.

    Joseph Griebel, a well-known farmer and stockman of Cottonwood towship, this
county, proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in the Searles
neighborhood, seven miles from New Ulm, is a native son of Brown county, having
been born on the farm on which he still makes Ms home, April 3, 1880, son of
Michael and Kunigunde Griebel, natives of Germany and pioneer settlers of this
county.

    Michael Griebel was a farmer in his native land. Upon coming to this country
he landed at the port of New York, whence he proceeded to Illinois. After
spending some time in that state he came to Minnesota and homesteaded a quarter
of a section of land in Cottonwood township, this county, where he spent the
remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1890. He and his wife were the
parents of nine children, Emma, Rose, Reginald, Bertha, George, Dora, Hannah,
Joseph and Nellie.

    Joseph Griebel was reared on the homestead farm in Cottonwood township,
receiving his education in the district school in the neighborhood of his home,
and one year in New Ulm school. At the age of fifteen he quit school and
thereafter gave his whole attention to the labor of assisting in the development
of the home farm. After the death of his father in 1890 he assumed practical
management of the place and in 1905 bought the farm from his mother and has
since owned and operated the same. He has about seven thousand dollars worth of
improvements on the place and he and his family are very comfortably situated.

     In 1905 Joseph Griebel was united in marriage to Connie Dietsch, who was
born in Illinois, daughter of Andrew and Barbara Dietsch, who later became
residents of this county, rearing here a family of five children, four sons and
the one daughter; and to this union five children have been born, Hubbart,
Alwin, Willie, Edith and Martin. Mr. Griebel is a member of the Catholic church
at Searles and the children are being reared in that faith. Mr. Griebel is a
member of the St. John Society and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that
organization. He is an "independent" voter. Mrs. Griebel. who was also a
Catholic, died on February 18, 1914.


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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