Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Melzer, Julius 1858 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 1, 2014, 12:30 am Source: See Below Author: L. A. Fritsche JULIUS MELZER Julius Melzer, one of the best-known and most progressive farmers in Brown county, proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and sixty-two acres in Linden township, is a native son of Brown county, having been born in Cottonwood township, October 26, 1858, second son of John and Wilhelmine (Tohm) Melzer, both natives of Germany and among the very earliest settlers of Brown county, who came to the United States immediately after their marriage and located at Chicago. They were among the members of the party of German colonists who left Chicago in 1855 and came to Minnesota, establishing the New Ulm settlement. Upon arriving here John Melzer homesteaded a tract of land in Cottonwood township and was living there with his family at the time of the Indian uprising in 1862. The family sought refuge in New Ulm and later went to St. Peter, where they remained until the uprising had been put down, after which they returned to their homestead farm, but shortly afterward sold that place and moved over into Nicollet county, where their permanent home was established and where John Melzer died in 1913. Julius Melzer received little schooling in his childhood, the pioneer home in which he was reared having been three mdes from a school house, and his time from boyhood was given to the labors incident to the development of a pioneer farm, in which development he assisted very materially, becoming an excellent farmer. Following his marriage in 1882 he bought three hundred and sixty-two acres in Linden township, this county, and there has made his home ever since. The home plat on this place was partially improved at the time Mr. Melzer bought it, but the remainder was wholly unimproved and he has brought it all up to an excellent state of cultivation, the only one of the old buildings now standing being the old dwelling, which Mr. Melzer now utilizes as a general purpose building. His barn, which is the second largest barn in the county, has steel stanchions and concrete floor and mangers, being thoroughly modern in every detail. On February 17, 1882, Julius Melzer was united in marriage, in Nicollet county to Wilhelmine Luedtke, who was born in Germany and who came to this country with her widowed mother about 1880. To this union seven children were born, one of whom died in infancy, the others being as follow: Emma, who married Albert Olson and has one child; Henry, who lives at home and is a competent assistant to his father on the farm; Albert, who owns a barber shop in South Dakota; John, who also lives in South Dakota; Arthur, at home, and Ella, also at home. Mrs. Melzer died on June 7, 1900. Mr. Melzer is a member of the Lutheran church at New Ulm and his children are also adherents of that faith. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/brown/bios/melzer509gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb