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Author: L. A. Fritsche

FLOYD DAVID MINIUM.

    Floyd David Minium, one of the well-known practical civil engineers in the
Northwest, who since 1912 has held the dual position of city civil engineer in
the city of New Ulm and of official surveyor of Brown county, is a native of the
great Keystone state, having been born on a farm near the city of Mifflintown,
Juanita county, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1886, son of Jacob and Lydia (Barner)
Minium, both natives of that same state, who are now living at Clear Lake, Iowa.

    Jacob Minium is the eldest of the four children born to his parents,
Harrison Minium and wife, natives of Pennsylvania, both of German descent, the
former of whom died at the age of seventy-five and the latter of whom is still
living. Jacob Minium grew to manhood on the paternal farm in Pennsylvania and
married Lydia Barner, who also was born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Joseph L.
and Sarah Barner, natives of that same state, who moved to Michigan and thence,
about 1888, to South Dakota, locating, in the latter state, at Mitchell, later
moving to Clear Lake, Iowa, where they now reside. To Joseph L. Barner and wife
eight children were born, Laura, Mazie, Sarah, Sadie, Lydia, Roy, who died at
the age of nineteen years; Fred, deceased, and Boston.

    In 1888 Jacob Minium and family moved from Pennsylvania to Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, in the neighborhood of which city Mr. Minium engaged in farming
and was thus engaged until 1905, in which year he and his wife retired from the
farm and moved to Clear Lake, Iowa, where they now reside. Both are earnest
members of the Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith.
There are four of these children, as follow: Floyd D., the immediate subject of
this biographical sketch; Nora, widow of Clarence McFarland, of Clear Lake,
Iowa; Maud, wife of Charles A. Woods, of Indiana, and Evelyn, who is at home
with her parents.

     Floyd D. Minium was two years of age when his parents moved from
Pennsylvania to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and he grew to manhood in the latter
city. Following his graduation from the Sioux Falls high school he entered the
South Dakota State College and for three years devoted himself to further study
there, with particular reference to the study of civil engineering. Thus
admirably equipped for the pursuit of the profession to which he had devoted
himself, Mr. Minium engaged his services to the Great Northern Railroad Company
and served in the engineering department of that company in the state of
Washington and in British Columbia until December, 1906. He then transferred his
services to the South Dakota Central Railway Company and from January, 1907, to
November, 1908, was connected with the engineering department of that company.
He then took service with the engineering department of the city of Sioux Falls
and remained there until May, 1909, at which time he went with the Minneapolis &
St. Louis Railroad Company and was engaged in location survey work through the
Cheyenne River Indian reservation, later going to Greeley, Colorado, where for a
time he was engaged in irrigation work, after which he went to work for Denver,
Larimer and Northwestern Railway on terminal works at Denver, where he was
engaged in yard work until August, 1910, at which time he returned to Sioux
Falls and was in the city engineer's office there until August 1, 1911, at which
time he went to Watertown, South Dakota, as superintendent of construction and
remained there until he was called to this city to fill a vacancy in the office
of the city civil engineer, May 1, 1912, since which time he has made his home
in New Ulm. Upon his arrival in New Ulm Mr. Minium was appointed city civil
engineer and two months later, in July, was appointed to fill a vacancy in the
office of county surveyor and was duly elected to that office in the fall
election following and since then has held both offices, proving a very
efficient public officer.

     On March 14, 1911, Floyd D. Minium was united in marriage, at Canton, South
Dakota, to Marjorie C. Fletcher, who was born in Watertown, that state, daughter
of Herbert S. and Addie (Grinell) Fletcher, both of whom still reside in that
city. Mr. and Mrs. Minium are members of the Congregational church and take a
warm interest in the general social and cultural activities of the city, being
held in high esteem by the many friends they have made since coining to this
county. Mr. Minium is a Republican. He's a member of the Masonic lodge at New
Ulm and of the Elks lodge at Watertown, South Dakota, and in the affairs of both
of these popular fraternal organizations takes an active 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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