Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Sperl, Joseph J. 1869 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

JOSEPH J. SPERL.

    Joseph J. Sperl, a well-known and well-to-do farmer of Brown county,
proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and forty-three acres on the
outskirts of the pleasant village of Searles, in Cottonwood township, clerk of
that township, also clerk of school district No. 4, and president of the
Farmers' Elevator Company of New Ulm, is a native son of Minnesota, having been
born in the neighboring county of Nicollet, October 12, 1869, son of Anton and
Catherine (Eckstein) Sperl, natives of Austria, who later became prominent
residents of Cottonwood township, this county.

    Anton Sperl came to the United States when a young man and located in
Nicollet county, this state, about 1863. For five years thereafter he worked on
various farms and at the well known Bless saw-mill, and after his marriage
homesteaded a tract of land in Fort Ridgely township, which he sold three years
later and bought a farm of three hundred and forty-three acres in Cottonwood
township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife
were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the
eldest, the others being Otto, Anton, Anna, George and Stanislaus.

    Joseph J. Sperl was but an infant when his parents moved from Nicollet
county to Brown county and he grew up on the home farm in Cottonwood township.
His school days ended when he was eleven years old and his youth and early
manhood were devoted to the assistance of his father on the farm. When he was
twenty-two years old he went to St. James, in the neighboring county of
Watonwan, where he became interested in the manufacture of carbonated beverages
and presently bought a "pop" factory there which he operated for three years, at
the end of which time he sold the factory and returned to the home farm and
until the death of his father seven years later managed the place for his
father. After the death of the elder Sperl, Joseph J. Sperl took charge of the
farm and has since then been operating the same very successfully, long having
been regarded as one of the most progressive and substantial farmers in his
neighborhood. He has a fine brick house and a large grove on the place and is
very comfortably situated. The Sperl farm shows evidences of being well kept,
having about eight thousand dollars worth of improvements on it. Mr. Sperl's
trading points are New Ulm and Searles. He has for years taken an active part in
the promotion of the agricultural interests of this section and is president of
the Farmers' Elevator Company of New Ulm, a concern which has done much toward
gaining for the farmers a better price for their grain. Mr. Sperl is a Democrat
and has held the office of township clerk ever since 1901.

     In 1894 Joseph J. Sperl was united in marriage to Lena Gall, who was born
in this state, daughter of Michael and Mary (Herman) Gall, who were the parents
of seven children, of whom Mrs. Sperl is the only one residing in this county,
and to this union twelve children have been born, Anton, Josephine, John, Elsie,
Joseph, Lena, Wenzel, Andrew, Mary, Anna, Genevieve and Leona, all of whom are
at home. Mr. and Mrs. Sperl are members of the Catholic church and their
children have been reared in that faith. Mr. Sperl is the president of the St.
John's Society at Searles and is a member of the New Ulm branch of the Knights
of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters and St. Joseph's Society, in the
affairs of which organizations he takes a warm interest.


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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