Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Sprenger, Anton 1863 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

ANTON SPRENGER.

    Anton Sprenger, a well-known and well-to-do farmer and stockman of
Cottonwood township, this county, proprietor of a fine farm of two hundred and
ten acres in the Searles neighborhood, is a native son of Brown county, having
been born on a homestead farm in that same township, December 9, 1863, son of
Peter and Mary (Eigenberger) Sprenger, natives of Germany and pioneers of Brown
county.

    Peter Sprenger was a soldier in his native land, remaining in the army until
he was thirty-three years old. He then married and came to the United States, he
and his wife landing at the port of New York in the summer of 1855. They
proceeded directly to Iowa and lived in the neighborhood of Dubuque until the
spring of 1856, when they came to Minnesota, settling in Brown county. Peter
Sprenger homesteaded a farm in Cottonwood township, thus becoming one of the
earliest settlers of that part of the county. As he prospered in his farming
operations he gradually enlarged his farm and became one of the most substantial
fanners of that section. In 1887 he retired from the farm and moved to New Ulm,
where he died in 1902. He and his wife were the parents of six children, four
sons and two daughters, Christ, Kate, Mary, Anton, Henry and John.

    Anton Sprenger was reared on the homestead farm in Cottonwood township and
received his education in the New Ulm schools. Quitting school at the age of
sixteen he gave his attention to the work of helping in the development of the
home farm and remained at home until the time of his marriage at the age of
twenty-two, when he bought one hundred and sixty acres of his father's farm and
established a home of his own. There he remained for twenty-six years, at the
end of which time he sold his place and bought his present farm of two hundred
and ten acres in the same township, where he ever since has made his home and
where he and his family are very pleasantly situated. When Mr. Sprenger bought
his present place there were few improvements on the same and he has spent about
three thousand dollars bringing it to its present state of improvement. He has a
comfortable half brick and frame house, a barn thirty-four by one hundred, and a
fine grove, and is looked upon as one of the substantial and progressive farmers
of the community. He is an "independent" voter and takes a good citizen's
interest in local political affairs.

    In 1885 Anton Sprenger was united in marriage to Mary Schlumpberger, who
also was born in this county, daughter of John and Rohner Schlumpberger,
pioneers of Brown county, who settled in Cottonwood township in 1856, rearing
there a family of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. To Mr. and
Mrs. Sprenger eight children have been born, Martha (deceased), Emily, Hugo,
Otto Bruno, Anton, Agatha and one who died in infancy. Emily Sprenger married
Valentine Zeller, a South Dakota farmer, and has one child; Hugo Sprenger
married Emilia Grossmann and is farming in Cottonwood township. The remaining
children are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Sprenger are members of the Catholic church
at Searles and their children have been reared in the same faith. Mr. Sprenger
is secretary of the St. John Society and takes an earnest interest in the
affairs of that organization.


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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