Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Pfisterer, Frank William 1887 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

FRANK WILLIAM PFISTERER, M. D.

    Dr. Frank William Pfisterer, well-known and progressive young physician and
surgeon, of New Ulm, this county, is a native son of Brown county, having been
born on a farm in Cottonwood township, July 20, 1887, son of Henry and Caroline
(Waibel) Pfisterer, the former of whom was born in the state of Wisconsin and
the latter in this county, both of whom are still living, now making their home
in New Ulm, where they have lived for the past fifteen years or more.

    Henry Pfisterer is the youngest of the five children born to his parents,
Philip and Dorothea (Fricker) Pfisterer, the others having been Martha, Louise,
Philip and William. The elder Philip Pfisterer and his wife, natives of the
Alsace-Lorraine country, came to the United States after their marriage and
settled in Wisconsin, later coming over into Minnesota and settling in Brown
county, thus becoming pioneers of this county. Grandfather Pfisterer was killed
in a runaway accident and his widow survived for years, she having been well
advanced in years at the time of her death. Henry Pfisterer, their youngest son,
was well grown when he came to this county with the family and he helped his
father develop the farm in Cottonwood township which the latter had bought upon
locating here. He married Caroline Waibel, who was born in this county, daughter
of Alexander Waibel and wife, natives of Germany, who had settled here in the
days before the Indian massacre and developed a valuable farm property in
Cottonwood township, where they reared a large family, those besides Mrs.
Pfisterer who grew to maturity having been John, Alexander, Henry, Theodore,
Benjamin, Bernhard, Edward and Margaret. After his marriage Henry Pfisterer
began farming in Cottonwood township on his own account and finally became the
owner of a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres, which he sold in 1900 and
since then has made his home in New Ulm. They have but two children, Doctor
Pfisterer, the subject of this biographical sketch, and Minnie.

     Frank W. Pfisterer was reared on the paternal farm in Cottonwood township,
receiving his early education in district school No. 4 and in the New Ulm high
school, from which latter he was graduated in 1908. He then took a two-year
course in the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
supplementing the same by a medical and scientific course at Marquette in 1913,
after which he began the practice of his profession at Milwaukee, where he
remained until 1915, in which year he returned to New Ulm, where he opened an
office and where he is now very successfully engaged in practice.

     On November 30, 1911, Dr. Frank W. Pfisterer was united in marriage at
Milwaukee to Elsie Staumn, who was born in that city, only daughter of Reinholt
Staumn and wife, natives of Germany, who still reside in Milwaukee and who have
two sons, Hugo and Max. To Doctor and Mrs. Pfisterer one child has been born, a
son, William Henry. Mrs. Pfisterer is a member of the Lutheran church. Both she
and the Doctor take a warm interest in the general social and cultural
activities of their home town and are held in high esteem by their many friends
in New Ulm and throughout the county.


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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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