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Author: L. A. Fritsche

REV. CHRISTIAN HOHN.

    The Rev. Christian Hohn, pastor of the German Methodist Episcopal church at
New Ulm, this county, is a native of Germany, having been born in the village of
Prevorst, Wurtemberg, March 28, 1878, son of Jacob and Rosina Horn, [sic] both
natives of that same place. Jacob Hohn was a government forester. He also had
served in the German army. In 1891 he and his family came to the United States
and settled at Enterprise, Kansas. For one year he worked on the railroad
section there and then moved to Salina, same state, in the neighborhood of which
he was engaged in farming for about two years, at the end of which time he moved
to Seward county, Nebraska, where he bought a farm and where he is still living,
though now retired from the active duties of the farm. To him and his wife
twelve children were born, of whom ten are still living; the only one of these
living in Brown county, however, being the subject of this sketch.

    Christian Hohn was about thirteen years old when he came to America with his
parents and he lost little time in beginning his studies in English in the
common schools at Enterprise, Kansas. He early recognized his call to the gospel
ministry and upon completing the course in the common schools entered a
preparatory school at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, after which he entered Central
Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Missouri, from which he was graduated five years
later, being ordained as a deacon by Bishop John W. Hamilton on September 5,
1904. In the meantime, in 1902, he had served as a minister at New Ulm, later
going to St, Paul's College, where he served as a teacher for a year. On October
7, 1906, he was ordained to the ministry and was installed as pastor of the
Central Methodist Episcopal church at Minneapolis, and was there engaged for
three years, during which time he also continued his studies by taking a course
in the University of Minnesota. He then was called to the Dayton's Bluff German
Methodist church at St. Paul, in which charge he served for four years, at the
end of which time his services were engaged as an instructor in the Charles City
College at Charles City, Iowa, where he remained until accepting the call to the
German Methodist church at New Ulm in 1912. During his pastorate at New Ulm, the
Rev. Mr. Hohn has performed a fine work in extending both the spiritual and
material interests of the church under his charge.

     In 1902 the Rev. Christian Hohn was united in marriage to Anna Rockel and
to this union two children have been born. Ronald and Winfried. The Rev. Mr.
Hohn is widely known throughout the conference of his church and. is now serving
as assistant secretary of the Northern German conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He is a Mason and in the affairs of that order he takes a warm
interest. In his political beliefs he is independent, declining to be tied to
any party, preferring to exercise his suffrage in behalf of such candidates for
public office as he regards best fitted for the performance of the duties of the
offices to which they aspire.


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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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