Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Herzog, Joseph A. 1886 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

JOSEPH A. HERZOG.

    Joseph A. Herzog, cashier of the State Bank of Sleepy Eye and widely known
throughout the county, being generally recognized as one of the most energetic
and enterprising young business men in Brown county, is a native son of
Minnesota, having been born at Melrose, in Stearns county, this state, June 3,
1886, son of Frank H. and Elizabeth (Blommel) Herzog, both natives of Germany.

    Frank H. Herzog, who is still living at Melrose, this state, was born in the
province of Oldenburg, Germany, son of Henry and Agnes Herzog, who were the
parents of seven children, Bernard, Frank H., Joseph, Agnes, Elizabeth and
Frederick. Shortly after locating at Melrose, in Stearns county, this state,
Frank H. Herzog married Elizabeth Blommel, eldest of the five children of Joseph
Blommel and wife, who had also come from Germany, they having been natives of
Hanover, and settled in the Melrose neighborhood, where they engaged in farming.
Mrs. Blommel died there, after which Joseph Blommel went to St. Joseph, Florida,
where he spent his last days in the home of one of his sons. He and his wife
were the parents of five children, Elizabeth, Bernard, Henry, Bernardina and
Joseph. To Frank H. Herzog and wife eleven children have been born, as follow:
Joseph A., the subject of this sketch; Bernard, of St. Joseph, Stearns county,
this sketch; John, of Freeport, in the same county; Frank, of Rockville, in the
same county; Rose, who married Frank Meyer, of Freeport, and Agnes, William,
Leo, Christina, Hilda and Bertha, at home with their parents. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Herzog are earnest members of the Catholic church and their children were reared
in that faith.

     Joseph A. Herzog was reared on the paternal farm near Melrose and received
his elementary education in the district school in that neighborhood, assisting
his father in the work of the farm until at the age of nineteen he entered St.
John's University at Collegeville, this state. On April 15, 1907; he went to
work in the First National Bank at Brainard, this state, and was thus engaged
until June 8, 1910, at which time he entered the service of the International
Harvester Company at St. Cloud and was thus engaged until the following
December, on the fifteenth day of which month he transferred his services to the
State Bank of Sleepy Eye at Sleepy Eye, this county, and has ever since been
connected with that old financial institution. Upon entering the State Bank of
Sleepy Eye, Mr. Herzog was made assistant cashier of the bank and on February
17, 1912, was advanced to the position of cashier of the bank, which responsible
position he since has held and in the performance of the duties connected with
which he has earned not only the full confidence and regard of the stockholders
and other officers of the bank, but the esteem of the community generally.

     Mr. Herzog is a member of the Catholic church and takes a good citizen's
part in all worthy movements designed to advance the general welfare of the
community in which he lives. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of
the Catholic Order of Foresters, in the affairs of which popular fraternal
organizations he takes a warm interest. Mr. Herzog is inclined to be somewhat
independent in his political views, holding that in local governmental affairs
the general fitness of the candidates for office should be the consideration
actuating the suffrage, in preference to a submission to a mere party emblem.


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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