Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Hellman, Alfred 1870 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

ALFRED HELLMANN.

    Alfred Hellmann, well-known druggist and pharmacist at New Ulm, this county,
has lived in that city all his life, having [sic] been born there on May 8,1870,
son of August and Sophia (Welzien) Hellmann, natives of Mecklenberg-Schwerin,
Germany, and early settlers of the New Ulm neighborhood, both of whom spent
their last days here.

    August Hellmann, father of Alfred, left his native land in 1852 when a young
man and came to the United States, locating in Chicago, in which city he found
employment at his trade of wagon-making, and where he, in 1854, was married to
Sophia Welzien. When the Chicago Landverein's party was made up to help colonize
this section of Minnesota in the year 1855 he joined the colonists and came to
Brown county, entering a homestead claim to a quarter section of land in Milford
township adjoining the city of New Ulm, which he proceeded to develop and where
he made his home, until the Indian outbreak in 1862, and was one of the
defenders of New Ulm. After the Indian war August Hellman enlisted for service
in behalf of the Union cause and served with the army in the south until the
close of the war. Upon the conclusion of his military service he returned and
settled in New Ulm where he resumed his trade as a wagon-maker and blacksmith
and was thus engaged until the year 1885 when he retired from business. Mr.
Hellmann died in 1914, having lived to be ninety-one years of age. Mrs. Hellmann
died in 1902 at the age of sixty-nine years. To August Hellmann and wife seven
children were born, namely: George, of Chicago; Lisetta, unmarried of Milwaukee;
Frida, wife of O. M. Olsen, of New Ulm; Alfred, the immediate subject of this
biographical sketch; Ida, wife of O. C. Schumacher, of Milwaukee, and two who
died in early youth.

     Alfred Hellmann was reared in New Ulm, the city of his birth, and was
educated in the public schools of that city. At the age of sixteen he began
clerking in a drug store and from the very beginning of that connection made a
careful study of pharmacy. He passed his examination under the state pharmacy
laws at the age of twenty-one and has ever since been an active pharmacist and
druggist. In February, 1914, he bought the store of his employer, O. M. Olsen,
in which store he had been employed continuously for twenty-eight years, and has
since been conducting the same on his own account. The Hellmann drug store is
one of the best-known mercantile establishments in New Ulm and its proprietor is
regarded as one of the "live" business men of the city, enterprising, energetic
and public spirited, enjoying the full confidence and regard of lb1 business
associates and the community generally. Mr. Hellmann is an active and
influential member of the local Turnverein and is held in high esteem by his
many friends hereabout. Though affiliated with the Republican party for years,
he is in reality an "independent" in his political views and supports with his
suffrage such candidates for public office as he believes best fitted for the
faithful performance of the duties of the offices to which they aspire.


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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