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Author: L. A. Fritsche

ADOLPH SCHILLING.

    Close attention to detail has been the principal secret of the success of
Adolph Schilling as a farmer of Brown county. He was born on July 5,1860, in
Lafayette county, Minnesota, and is a son of Adolph and Henrietta (Freeze)
Schilling, natives of Germany, from which country the father came to the United
States in 1855, first locating at Freeport, Illinois, but he did not remain
there long, coming on to Minnesota and homesteaded eighty acres of land. He
subsequently bought more land, developed an excellent farm on which he resided
until his death, July 22, 1888. He fought against the Sioux in 1862, his family
going to St. Peter with other settlers and there he eventually went, all
remaining until the danger of another invasion was passed. The subject of this
sketch was then only two years old and he remembers but one incident of those
times and that was the family leaving their log cabin home and going to St.
Peter. Four children were born to Adolph Schilling, Sr., and wife, namely:
Adolph, of this review; August, who lives in Winthrop; Henry died in 1914, and
William died on May 31, 1888, shortly before his father died.

    The subject of this sketch lived on the old home place until December 2,
1913, carrying on general fanning successfully, then retired and moved to town,
he had bought the farm of his father two years previous to his death. As a boy,
Adolph Schilling attended the rural schools near his home until he was thirteen
years of age, and assisted his father with the farm work in the summer time. On
July 2, 1886, in Lafayette county, he was united in marriage with Minnie
Wellner, who was born on December 10, 1862, in that county, and is a daughter of
William and Wilhelmina (Hellmann) Wellner, natives of Germany, from which
country they came to the United States in February, 1857, coming direct to
Minnesota. Here the father took an active part in the Indian war as a teamster
and hauler of supplies. Mr. and Mrs. Schilling have one child, Adolph, who was
born on May 14, 1887. He received a good education, passing through the public
schools, then attending the college at St. Peter, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1908. On September 17, 1913, he married
Eva Brinkman, who was born on June 12, 1893, in Brown county, and is a daughter
of Henry and Emily (Dietz) Brinkman. The father was born in Germany and the
mother in Brown county, Minnesota. Adolph Schilling, Jr., and wife have no
children; they live on his father's farm which he is successfully operating.
Air. Schilling and family are members of the Evangelical church. He was
treasurer of the school district in which he lived in Lafayette township for
several years.


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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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