Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Julius, William J. 1869 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

WILLIAM J. JULIUS.

    William J. Julius, sheriff of Brown county and one of the best-known
citizens of this county, having formerly been a member of the police force at
New Ulm, is a native son of Brown county, having been born on a farm in Milford
township, May 15, 1869, son of Fred and Mary (Kalb) Julius, the former a native
of Germany and the latter of Switzerland, pioneers of this section of Minnesota,
the latter of whom is still living.

    Fred Julius was but a boy when he came to America from his native home in
Mecklenburg-Schwerin with his parents, Fred Julius and wife, the family
proceeding almost immediately after their arrival in the United States to
Minnesota, settling on a farm in Nicollet county at a very early day in the
settlement of this section of the state. The elder Fred Julius became a
prominent pioneer of that section, even before the days of the Indian massacre,
and spent the rest of his life there, both he and his wife dying on the
homestead farm, well along in years. They were the parents of four children,
Fred, Joseph, Mary and Louise. Fred Julius, the elder of the above children,
grew to manhood on the homestead farm in Nicollet county and engaged in farming
on his own account after his marriage, being the owner of a quarter of a section
of fine land there. He married Mary Kalb, daughter of Ferdinand and Katherina
(Ochs) Kalb, natives of Germany and early settlers in Brown county, who were the
parents of nine children, Sophia, John, Anton, Berthold. Bertha, Herman, Amelia,
Helena and Ferdinand.

During the Civil War Fred Julius served the Union cause as a member of the
Mounted Rangers. Some time later he left the farm and moved to New Ulm, where he
engaged in the mercantile and livery business and died there at the age of
thirty-nine years. His widow still survives him. She is an earnest member of the
Catholic church, as was her husband, and their children were reared in that
faith. There were ten of these children, four of whom survive, as follow:
William J., the subject of this biographical sketch; Bertha, wife of Henry
Vedder, of New Ulm; Mary, widow of Charles Roeder, of New Ulm, and Roas, wife of
Emil Hoffmann, of Maquoketa, Iowa.

     William J. Julius received his education in the public and parochial
schools of New Ulm and early learned the printer's trade, which he followed for
some years in his home town, having been foreman of the New Ulm Volksblatt when
that paper was first issued and also foreman of the New Ulm Fortschritt.
Presently he went to Minneapolis, where he for some time was employed in the
office of the Freie-Press Herold and then went to Fremont, Ohio, where he was
employed for a few months, at the end of which time he returned to New Ulm,
where he temporarily abandoned the printing trade and became a painter, which
vocation he followed for about five years. He married in the fall of 1891 and
afterward resumed his place at the printer's case and was thus engaged up to
1897, in which year he was appointed a member of the police force at New Ulm and
served in that public capacity until the time of his election on the Republican
ticket in the fall of 1902 to the office of sheriff of Brown comity, which
office he ever since has held, having been re-elected at each successive
election since then, a most flattering attestation of the people's indorsement
of his administration of the affairs of that important office.

     On November 23, 1891, William J. Julius was united in marriage to Charlotte
May Blass, who was born in Nicollet county, daughter of William and Mary Blass,
early settlers of Nicollet county, whose last days were spent in New Ulm, the
parents of nine children, Sophia, Louise, Henry, Anna, Christina, Minnie,
Caroline, Fred and Charlotte. To Mr. and Mrs. Julius six children were born,
Hildegard, Louise, Henry, Florence, William and Walter. Hildegard Julius is a
well-known teacher in Brown county; Louise married Herman F. Jahnke, deputy
sheriff of Brown county, and has one child; Henry died in infancy and the others
of the above named children are at home. The mother of these children died in
the fall of 1908, at the age of thirty-eight years.

     Sheriff Julius is a member of the Catholic church and is associated with
the Knights of Columbus, the St. Joseph Society and the Catholic Order of
Foresters, in the affairs of all of which organizations he is warmly interested.
He occupies a high place in the regard of his official associates about the
court house, among all of whom he is deservedly popular, and is held in high
esteem throughout the entire county.


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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