Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Hamann, Fred 1865 - 
************************************************
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 24, 2014, 11:46 pm

Source: See Below
Author: L. A. Fritsche

FRED HAMANN.

    Fred Hamann, well-known driven-well contractor and dealer in windmills and
member of the New Ulm common council, is a native son of Brown county, having
been born on a pioneer farm in Cottonwood township, September 14, 1865, son of
Henry and Louisa (Bott) Hamann, natives of Germany and early settlers of this
section of Minnesota.

    Henry Hamann came to the United States in 1853 and settled at Blue Island,
Illinois, in the neighborhood of Chicago, where he bought a forty-acre farm on
which he made his home for three years, at the end of which time, in 1856, he
joined the considerable German colony which not long before had settled in the
New Ulm neighborhood in Brown county. He homesteaded a tract of land in
Cottonwood township and spent the rest of his life there, he and his wife being
among the earliest settlers of that section. They went through all the terrors
of the Indian uprising and became substantial citizens. Henry Hamann died on his
homestead farm in 1878. He and his wife were the parents of thirteen children,
four of whom are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch being
Harry, William and Louise.

    Fred Hamann was reared on the homestead farm in Cottonwood township and
assisted very materially in the development of the same. His school days came to
an end when he was thirteen years old and thereafter, until he was twenty
two-years old, he gave his time to the work of the farm. In the meantime he had
become interested in the work of drilling wells in that community and he then
entered into the business as a definite vocation and has followed it ever since,
long having been regarded as one of the best well-drillers in this part of the
state. For more than twenty-five years Mr. Hamann has been engaged in that line
and he and his machines for driving wells are known far and wide hereabout. Mr.
Hamann also for years has acted as agent for a popular make of windmill in this
section and has done a big business in that line. Mr. Hamann is a Republican and
has long given his earnest attention to local political affairs, at present
serving as councilman from his ward in the New Ulm city council.

     On January 18, 1900, Fred Hamann was united in marriage to Dora Gribel, who
also was born in this county, the daughter of Michael and Kunigunda (Dauer)
Gribel, natives of Germany and pioneers of Brown county, and to this union four
children have been born: Elmer, Edna, Clarence and Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Hamann
are attendants at the Congregational church and take an earnest interest in the
good works of the community.


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/hamann427gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/

File size: 3.5 Kb