Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Schreyer, Carl 1867 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

CARL SCHREYER.

    Carl Schreyer, a well-known and prosperous farmer of Cottonwood township,
this county, who is living retired from the active labors of the farm in New
Ulm, is a native son of Brown county, having been born in Cottonwood township,
on a homestead farm, a part of his present farm, February 24, 1867, son of Carl
and Amelia Schreyer, both natives of Germany and pioneer settlers of this
county, who were for years regarded as among the leading residents of Cottonwood
township.

    Carl Schreyer came to this country when a young man and made his way to
Wisconsin, but presently came to Minnesota and homesteaded a quarter of a
section of land in Cottonwood township, this county, married a daughter of one
of the early settlers of that neighborhood and established his home there. He
was a good farmer and prospered in his undertakings, being at the time of his
death on July 4, 1899, the owner of a fine farm of five hundred and sixty acres.
In 1887, more than ten years before his death, Mr. Schreyer had retired from the
farm and moved to New Ulm, where his last days were spent in comfortable
retirement. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, Amelia, Lena,
Bertha, Martha, Eda, Carl Willie, Herman, Otto, John, Louisa and one son, the
fifth in order of birth, who died in infancy.

    Carl Schreyer received his education in the district school in the
neighborhood of his home, completing the course there when he was fifteen years
old. He then devoted himself to the work of assisting in the development of the
home farm. At the end of his father's retirement from the farm in 1887, he
bought two hundred and forty acres of the home place and has ever since made his
home there. Mr. Schreyer is an energetic and progressive farmer and stockman and
has done well in his operations. He has made about ten thousand dollars worth of
improvements on his place, all practically new and in excellent condition, and
is very comfortably situated, being in a position to "take life easy."

    In 1895 Carl Schreyer was united in marriage to Emma Simmerman, who was born
in Sigel township, this county, daughter of John Simmerman and wife, pioneers of
that township, who were the parents of eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Schreyer are
members of the Lutheran church at New Uhn and take a warm interest in the
general good works of the community. Mr. Schreyer is an "independent" voter.


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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