Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Heimann, W. C. 1874 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

W. C. HEIMANN.

    W. C. Heimann, postmaster at Essig and a well-known and enterprising
merchant of that thriving little village, is a native son of Brown county,
having been born on a farm in Milford township, June 12, 1874, son of August and
Caroline Heimann, natives of Germany and well-known residents of that community.

    August Heimann came to the United States when little more than a boy and for
some time after coming here worked as a farm hand in the neighborhood of New
Ulm. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted for service in the Union army and
upon the completion of his term of enlistment returned home and married. He had
a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Milford township and there he
established his home, remaining there until his retirement from the active
duties of the farm in 1901, in which year he and his wife moved to New Ulm,
where they are still living. They were the parents of nine children, of whom
eight are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch, who is the
eldest, being Mrs. Emilia Rolf, Mrs. Bertha Dohmer, Fred, Albert, Louis, George
and Charles.

    W. C. Heimann was reared on the paternal farm in Milford township, receivteg
his education in the school in the neighborhood of his home, and remained on the
farm until he was twenty years old, after which he began working on his own
account. After his marriage in 1897 he rented a farm in Home township and lived
there for five years, at the end of which time he moved to the village of Essig,
where he and his brother Fred bought the general store of Backer & Sears and
engaged in the mercantile business there. For a year this partnership continued
and then Mr. Heimann bought the interest held by his brother, Fred, and has
since conducted the store alone. He carries a general stock valued at above
seven thousand, dollars and has an extensive trade throughout the section of the
county covered from that point. In addition to his store room, which is
twenty-five by fifty feet in dimensions, Mr. Heimann also has a warehouse
fourteen by forty. Mr. Heimann is a Democrat and on July 23, 1903, received a
commission as postmaster at Essig and has since then been serving the patrons of
that office in that capacity, the postoffice being conducted, in his store.

     In 1897 W. C. Heimann was united in marriage to Ida Wagner, daughter of
Englebrecht Wagner and wife, and to this union two children have been born,
Hazel and Leo.


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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