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Author: L. A. Fritsche

LOUIS SPELBRINK.

    Louis Spelbrink, successful farmer and stockman of Milford township, Brown
county, Minnesota, was born in the same township where he has passed his entire
life, on September 1, 1859, being a son of Christian and Marie Louise Spelbrink,
both natives of Hanover, Germany. Christian Spelbrink was a merchant in his
native city in a small way and emigrated to America in 1856. He located near
Lafayette, Indiana, where for about a year he worked out as a farm hand. In 1857
he came to Minnesota with the Cincinnati colony and located in Milford township
on a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land which he entered from the
government. He remained thereon for three years and then disposed of it,
purchasing instead the land on which Louis, the immediate subject of this
sketch, now resides. Christian Spelbrink lived and labored on this farm until
the time of his death, passing through many hardships common to pioneers in this
section at that time. During the time of the Indian massacre he lost all his
grain and live stock and most of his household furniture and with his family had
to flee to New Ulm for safety and later on they were forced to go to St. Peter
for a short time.

    Louis Spelbrink was one of a family of six children, of whom but three are
now living, the other two being Chris, of New Ulm, and Gust, residing at
Ivanhoe, Minnesota. Louis Spelbrink received his education in his native
township, making the most of the meager opportunities offered at that time, and
became his father's assistant in the management of the home place. He was thus
associated with him at the time of his death, when he took over the farm and has
increased his holdings to two hundred and seventy-six acres. Louis Spelbrink has
greatly improved this farm until it is one of the best in the community and
carries on diversified farming along the most approved lines. He puts in an
average of ninety acres to wheat, twenty acres to oats, forty acres to corn and
ten acres to clover and prepares for the market from forty to fifty hogs per
annum. He keeps an average of ten milk cows, disposing of their product to a
nearby creamery. Since owning this land, Mr. Spelbrink has spent about four
thousand dollars in improving it and has brought it up to a high standard of
perfection.

     On January 18, 1888, Louis Spelbrink was united in marriage with Dora
Sophia Goede, a daughter of William Goede, born on October 18,1864, and to their
union has been born a family of five children: Erwin E., Erne, Lydia, Jessie and
Esther, all at home with the parents with the exception of Erwin E., who married
Mate Knees. Mr. Spelbrink holds his fraternal affiliation with the Modern
Woodmen of America and gives his political support to the Republican party. He
is at the present time chairman of the town board of Milford and for eight years
served as clerk of the town board. He has also been township assessor,
discharging his duties along all lines with satisfaction to all concerned. Mr.
Spelbrink is one of the representative citizens of Milford township and as such
is eminently entitled to representation in a work of the character of the one in
hand.


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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