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HERMAN JUNI

    Herman Juni, well-known farmer of Milford township, Brown county, Minnesota,
was born on the same farm on which he now lives on July 12,1870, being a son of
Benedict and Ertestina Juni, the former a native of Switzerland and the latter
born in Germany.

    Benedict Juni was a weaver by trade and combined that with the vocation of
farming when in his native land, but abandoned weaving after coming to this
country in the early fifties. He came almost directly to this state and located
for a time at Beaver Falls, where he engaged in farming, later coming to this
county, where he farmed until within a few years of his death. He passed his
declining years in freedom from responsibility, his son Herman, the immediate
subject of this sketch, having management of the homestead and with him Benedict
lived until the close of his life. Benedict Juni was a man who lived an active
life and took a keen interest in the affairs of his day. He was at Ft. Ridgely
during the Indian outbreak and later enlisted as a private in the Civil War.
After the expiration of his term of enlistment, he returned to his home and took
up his duties here with renewed energy, increasing his holdings to two hundred
acres and being successful in his work. He was a school director for some time
and never failed to lend his influence for the good of the community. Benedict
Juni was the father of nine children. A son by the name of Ben, child of his
first marriage, now resides in New Ulm, and by his second marriage there were
Louis (deceased), Emma (deceased), Otilla and Herman.

     Herman Juni received his education in the common schools of Milford
township, making the most of the meager opportunities offered when he was a boy
and after his school days were over he became his father's assistant in the work
of the farm home, remaining with him in this connection until the time of the
father's retirement from active labor, when Herman took over the management of
the place for five years. He then bought the farm, consisting of two hundred and
eleven acres, and has since increased his holdings to three hundred and ten
acres, putting about five thousand dollars worth of improvements on it in the
meantime. He has about one hundred acres in fine virgin timber and puts in over
one hundred acres to grains each year.

     On June 7, 1900, Herman Juni was united in marriage with Hannah Strater, a
daughter of Fred Strater and wife. There are four children in the Juni family,
namely: Lowell, Ruth, Vita and Herman. Religiously, Mr. Juni is a faithful
member of the Methodist Episcopal church of New Ulm, serving that organization
as steward. Politically, he is an independent voter and as an evidence of his
interest in community affairs, he has served as a member of the school board for
some time. He is prosperous, progressive in his ideas and worthy of being
classed with the representative citizens of Brown 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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