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AUGUST SCHWEIGER.

    August Schweiger, well-known retired butcher, of Sleepy Eye, this county,
who has been a resident of Brown county since 1873, is a native of Germany. He
was born on November 28, 1849, son of Ferdinand and Rozina (Morris) Schweiger,
both of whom also were born in the Fatherland. Ferdinand Schweiger was a
carpenter and school teacher. He died in 1865 leaving a family of six children,
five sons and one daughter, Fritz, Julius, Gustave, August Carl and Matilda, all
of whom are residents of this county save Gustave, who remained in his native land.

    August Schweiger's school days came to an end when he was fourteen years
old, after which, for five years, he worked in a brickyard. He then, in 1868, at
the age of nineteen came to the United States, landing at the port of New York,
proceeding directly thence to the state of Illinois, where he worked on a farm
for two years, at the end of which time he went to Chicago, where he worked in a
packing house until 1873, in which year he came to Minnesota and settled at
Sleepy Eye. For more than three years after arriving there he worked in a
butcher shop and then went over to New Ulm, where he worked in a butcher shop
for five or six years, acquiring a thorough acquaintance with the needs of the
retail meat trade. He then, in 1882, returned to Sleepy Eye and opened a butcher
shop of his own and was thus very successfully engaged until his retirement from
business in 1907, at which time he turned the shop over to his son-in-law, who
is continuing the business at the old stand. Mr. Schweiger was a good business
man and did well while actively engaged in business in Sleepy Eye. In his
political views he is classed as an "independent." In his fraternal relations he
is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has occupied all the
chairs in the local lodge of that order.

     In 1878, August Schweiger was united in marriage to Charlotte Jent, who Was
born in Illinois, daughter of Charles and Johanna Jent, who came to Brown county
in 1869, and to this union six children were born, one son and four daughters,
Emma, Minnie, Gusta, August and Florence. Of these children Minnie married F. W.
Meyer, who is now conducting the retail meat business established by Mr.
Schweiger at Sleepy Eye in 1882. To that union two children have been born,
Elaine and Carrie. August Schweiger, Jr., who is assistant cashier in a bank at
Montevideo, this state, married Sue Fisher and has one child. Mr. Schweiger's
remaining children are at home with him. His wife died in 1909.


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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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