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Author: L. A. Fritsche

PHILIP KNEES.

     Among the successful farmers and substantial citizens of Milford township,
Brown county, Minnesota, is Philip Knees, to a short sketch of whose career the
attention of the reader is now directed. Mr. Knees was born in Illinois on
December 22, 1854, his parents, William and Mary Knees, having settled for a
time in that state after reaching this country from Germany. For further
particulars of the Knees family, please refer to the sketch of Albert Knees,
brother of Philip, presented elsewhere in this volume.

     Philip Knees was a small boy when his parents settled in Milford township
and it was in the schools of this place he received his education, making the
best of the limited opportunities offered in an educational way at that time. He
remained on the home farm assisting the father until twenty-seven years of age,
when he started out in life for himself. His first venture was the farming of a
rented tract of land, where he remained a few years, and then made purchase of
one hundred and sixty acres, same being the nucleus of his present farm of two
hundred acres. For his first purchase he paid a price of twenty dollars per acre
and has in all put about five thousand dollars' worth of improvements on his
farm, which is one of the modern and up-to-date homesteads of the county. In
addition to the residence and other buildings erected, Mr. Knees set out a
grove, which is now a thing of beauty and adds much value to his land. Philip
Knees conducts his farming along modern lines, putting on an average of
forty-five acres to corn per annum with ninety acres to various small grains,
realizing the usual yield for this section.

     Philip Knees has been twice married, his first wife being Rosa Layman, with
whom he was united in marriage in 1881. She was a daughter of Fred Layman and
after her death he married Josephine Friedmann, daughter of Frank Friedmann, and
to that union three children have been born. Viola, the eldest, became the wife
of Louis Dehn and is the mother of two children, Laura and Melvin. Alma married
Ernst Ralloff and the mother of one child, Evelyn. Harvey, the youngest of the
family, is still at home with the parents.

     Philip Knees and family stand high in the estimation of all of their
community. In politics, he is an independent voter and always interested in the
proper administration of affairs, particularly relating to local matters.


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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