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Author: L. A. Fritsche

GEORGE MARTI.

    George Marti, president of the Schell Brewing Company, of New Ulm, and one
of the most enterprising and energetic citizens of that city, is a native of the
great Empire state, having been born at Seneca Falls, New York, May 1, 1854, son
of Rudolph and Barbara (Buchhauser) Marti, the former a native of Switzerland
and the latter of Bavaria, who later became pioneers in this section of Minnesota.

    Rudolph Marti was born in the canton of Berne, in the republic of
Switzerland and was reared to the trade of a machinist. When a boy he came to
the United States and for some years worked in the East at his trade. He married
there and for some time was located at Seneca Falls, New York. In 1858 he became
attracted by the reports of the golden opportunities which awaited the settlers
in this part of Minnesota and came here, locating in the neighborhood of West
Newton, across the river in Nicollet county. There he homesteaded eighty acres
of land, to which he presently added by the purchase of an adjoining "eighty"
and on this quarter section established his home and reared his family. During
the Indian uprising in 1862 he served valiantly as one of the home defenders and
ever took a good citizen's part in the development of the community in the
neighborhood of his home, for years having been a member of the school board in
West Newton township. Rudolph Marti died in 1885, aged about forty-five years.
His widow is still surviving, at the age of eighty-three. He was a member of the
Lutheran church and she is a Catholic. They were the parents of nine children,
of whom the subject of this biographical sketch is the eldest, the others being
as follow: Charles, of New Ulm; Rudolph, of New Ulm; John, of St. Paul; Theresa,
wife of Mathias Walser, of West Newton; Anna, wife of Andrew Webber, of Tower,
this state; Sarah, wife of George Walter, living near Traverse, this state, and
two who died in early youth. The mother of these children, who is still living,
is one of the three children born to her parents in Bavaria, Her father died in
his native land, after which his widow married a Mr. Inhoffer and came to
America, later locating in West Newton, up the river from New Ulm, where the
rest of their lives were spent.

     George Marti was about four years of age when he came to this section of
Minnesota with his parents and he grew up on the home farm near West Newton,
receiving his education in the district school in the neighborhood of his home
and in the high school at New Ulm. He then entered the Chicago College of
Pharmacy at Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1879, after which for a year
he was employed in a drug store at New Ulm. In that same year he married a
daughter of August Schell and then went to St. Paul and started a drug store of
his own and was thus engaged there for twenty years, at the end of which time he
returned to New Ulm and entered the office of his father-in-law, head of the
Schell Brewing Company, and had charge of the books of that company and was thus
engaged until 1911, in which year he was elected president of the company, in
which capacity he has since been serving. The Schell brewery was established in
New Ulm about 1860 in a small way and has grown to large proportions, being now
one of the leading industries of its kind in this section of the state, having a
capacity of from eighteen thousand to twenty thousand barrels a year. The plant
occupies a plot of forty acres, the grounds being beautifully kept and the
buildings first-class and modern.

     In 1879, George Marti was united in marriage to Emma Schell, who was born
in Cincinnati, daughter of August and Theresa Schell, who came to this county as
members of the original colony of the Cincinnati Land Company in 1856. August
Schell founded the Schell Brewing Company at New Ulm and remained the head of
the same until his death. His widow survived him for some years, her death
occurring in 1912, she then being eighty-three years of age. They were the
parents of six children, Emily, Emma, Anna, Adolph, Otto and Augusta.

     To George and Emma (Schell) Marti five children have been born, namely:
Hertha, who married E. A. Hagberg, of New Ulm, and has two children, Helen and
Theodore; Alma, who is a music teacher; Alfred, bookkeeper in the office of the
Schell Brewing Company, who married Hertha Grege and has one child, a son,
Frank; Elsie, who teaches music in the New Ulm public schools, and Edward, who
is a student at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. The Martis long have been
prominent figures in the social and cultural life of the community and are held
in high esteem by their many friends. Mr. Marti is a member of Charity Lodge No.
98, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of the New Ulm Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
DeMolay Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Zurah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Minneapolis.

He also is affiliated with the Arbieter Freund Society of New Ulm and the Sons
of Hermann at New Ulm, and in the affairs of all these several organizations
takes a warm interest.


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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