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Author: L. A. Fritsche

THEODORE MOHR.

    Theodore Mohr, well-known and well-to-do farmer and stockman of Cottonwood
township, this county, proprietor of a well-kept farm of four hundred and eighty
acres lying a little more than five miles from New Ulm, on the main highway, is
a native son of Brown county, having been born on the farm where he still makes
his home, July 22, 1858, son of Martin and Caroline (Rein) Mohr, natives of
Austria, who came to America in 1854.

    Martin Mohr landed at the port of New York, proceeding directly thence to
Ohio, where he stayed about a year, at the end of which time they moved to Iowa,
making his home for awhile in the neighborhood of Dubuque. In 1856 he came to
Minnesota and homesteaded a tract of land on the outskirts of New Ulm, in this
county. A year later Martin Mohr sold his homestead right there and moved over
into Cottonwood township, where he homesteaded a quarter of section 18 and there
established his home, living there until 1893, in which year he retired from the
farm and moved to New Ulm, where he spent his last days, his death occurring in
1894. Martin Mohr was one of the pioneers of Brown county and was widely known
throughout the county. During the troublous times of the Indian uprising in 1862
he and his family fled from the homestead farm and found refuge in St. Peter
until the trouble was at an end. He and his wife were the parents of but two
children, the subject of this sketch and a daughter, Sophia.

    Theodore Mohr completed the course in the local schools at the age of
eighteen. He was a valuable assistant to his father in the labors of developing
the home place and after his father retired from the farm assumed the management
of the same. Upon his father's death he inherited the home farm, which he still
owns and operates and to which he has added by purchase until he now is the
owner of a fine place of four hundred and eighty acres, upon which about eight
thousand dollars has been spent in improvements; and is regarded as one of the
substantial farmers of the county.

     In 1885 Theodore Mohr was united in marriage to Barbara Sturm, who was born
in Bavaria, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Kunts) Sturm, parents of twelve
children, three sons and nine daughters, who came to this country in 1868,
settling in Brown county, where they established their home, and to this union
five children have been born, Alma Amelia, Emma, Martin and Willie. The two
elder daughters are married and the remaining children are at home with their
parents. Alma Mohr married Frank Schneider, of Sigel township, this county, and
has four children. Amelia Mohr married Victor Dauer and lives in the town of
Cottonwood. Mr. and Mrs. Mohr are members of the Catholic church at New Ulm and
their children have been reared in that faith. Mr. Mohr is a member of the St.
Joseph Society and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that organization.


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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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