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Author: L. A. Fritsche

ANDREW SAFFERT.

    Andrew Saffert, proprietor of an extensive meat market in New Ulm, this
county, owner of a valuable farm at the edge of that city, an enterprising
citizen who is interested in various other enterprises in and about the city, is
a native of Bohemia, having been born in the town of Mutterdorf, in that
country, June 20, 1877, son of Anton and Elizabeth (Wernisch) Saffert, both
natives of Bohemia, who are still living there.

    Anton Saffert is the eldest of the three children of Dr. John Saffert, a
veterinary surgeon, and wife, he having had a sister, Mary, and a brother,
George. He served his time in the army of his native land and is a stone-mason
by trade, and has held various town offices in Mutterdorf. He and his wife are
Catholics and their children were reared in that faith. There were nine of these
children, namely: Joseph, of Austria; Andrew, the subject of this biographical
sketch; Frank, of New Ulm; Louis, of New Ulm; Anna, who is the wife of Joseph
Parr, of Saxton, North Dakota; Theresa, a Sister in St. Mary's hospital at East
St. Louis, Illinois; Mary, who is at home with her parents in Mutterdorf;
George, a resident of Prague, the capital of Bohemia, and Frank, who died when
two years old.

    Andrew Saffert was fourteen years old when he came to the United States with
a party of his fellow-countrymen in 1891 and settled at New Ulm. Upon locating
there he began working for Joseph Schrobrielt, Sr., in the meat market, and
there thoroughly learned the butcher business, beginning a career in that line
in which he has become very successful. After a time he left the butcher shop
and went to the country, where for three years he worked on a farm, later
returning to New Ulm and taking employment with Charles Stuebe and still later
with Joseph Epple, thus further familiarizing himself with the business of the
retail meat trade in this section. In 1912 Mr. Saffert bought the old Epple
stand and since then has completely remodeled the same until he now has an
admirably equipped and thoroughly modern meat market, his abbatoir and all
buildings and equipment being in full harmony with the latest requirements of
the state board of health's regulations, his meat being prepared according to
the most minute details of the pure-food laws. Mr. Saffert is also the owner of
a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres at the edge of New Ulm, where his
rendering works are located and where he takes care of his live stock, only the
best grades of which are displayed for sale in his market. Mr. Saffert has not
confined his business transactions wholly to his meat market and was for some
years one of the directors of the State Bank of New Ulm.

     On May 7, 1901, Andrew Saffert was united in marriage to Anna Wiltscheck,
who was born in New Ulm, daughter of John and Margaretta (Dietz) Wiltscheck,
natives of Bohemia, and for years well-known residents of New Ulm, both of whom
are now dead. John Wiltscheck and wife were the parents of eight children, Mary,
Amelia, Anna, Rosa, Albert, Henry, the latter of whom died at the age of twenty
years, and two others who died in early youth. Mrs. Saffert's paternal
grandparents were John and Anna (Wiesner) Wiltscheck, who came from Anblatz,
Bohemia, and were early residents of the New Ulm settlement, spending the rest
of their lives on a farm in this community, both living to a good old age. They
had a good-sized family, John, Catherine, Anna, Mary, Barbara and Joseph. Mary
and Barbara Wiltscheck, both now deceased, were Sisters in the convent. Mrs.
Wiltscheck's maternal grandparents were August and Margaret (Sellner) Dietz, who
were the parents of several children, three of whom are now living, Theresa,
Anna and George. Mrs. Saffert's father died in 1908, being then past fifty-nine
years of age, and her mother died on January 5,1914, she also at that time being
just past fifty-nine years of age.

     To Andrew and Anna (Wiltscheck) Saffert five children have been born,
Elmer, Cornelius, Rosa, Loretta and Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Saffert are members of
the Catholic church and Mr. Saffert is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the
Catholic Order of Foresters and the St. Joseph Society, in the affairs of which
organizations he takes a warm interest. He is a Democrat and gives a good
citizen's attention to local political affairs, but is not included in the
office-seeking class.


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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