Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Stegeman, Herman R. 1872 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 26, 2014, 11:35 pm Source: See Below Author: L. A. Fritsche HERMAN R. STEGEMAN. The well-known architect and contractor, Herman R. Stegeman, of New Ulm, Brown county, was born March 9, 1872, in Pomerin, Germany, and he is a son of Carl and Wilhelmina (Buboltz) Stegeman. The father was a miller and engineer, also learned the brick-maker's trade. He was a stone-masonry engineer most of his life. In May, 1881, he came to the United States, making a quick trip for those times, the voyage requiring only eleven days. He arrived in New York on May 18, having boarded the ship at Hamburg. He and his family came direct to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where they spent three months, then the father bought a farm in La Crosse county, three and one-half miles from Bango, and he lived on that farm until he retired from active life and removed to Sparta where he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Olga Streeck, until his death. His wife died in 1890. They were the parents of four children that lived to maturity, namely: Olga, Mrs. Amanda Piska, Paul (deceased), and Herman R. Herman R. Stegeman received a common-school education and worked on the home farm during his vacations. When sixteen years old he started in to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed until 1894, when he began contracting. In 1891 he came to Fairfax, Minnesota, where he lived until 1896, with the exception of six months which he spent in Oklahoma. He located in New Ulm in 1896, beginning work here as a carpenter. In February, 1904, he began contracting again and has since been very busy as a builder of all kinds of buildings, and has also established a small sash and door factory. He has studied architecture and architectural drafting in the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and he now draws all of his own plans, having drawn about seventy plans to date (1916). His first plan was that of a residence in New Ulm. He has since designed and built the Brown county poor farm's buildings; also those of the Redwood county poor farm, the First Methodist church in Selby, South Dakota; the German Lutheran church at Springfield, the Evangelical church in North Redwood, the Catholic church in Searles, the Evangelical church in New Ulm, and the new armory at New Ulm, his largest and best building, which was constructed at a cost of fifty-five thousand dollars; he also built the New Ulm roller mills. Mr. Stegeman was married in New Ulm, October 12, 1900, to Ida Weilandt, who was born on November 1, 1876, in Ranville [sic] county, Minnesota. She is a daughter of Carl and Augusta (Fitzloff) Weilandt, natives of Pomerin, Germany, from which country they came to the United States on March 27, 1867, first locating in Warsaw, Wisconsin, where they spent one year, then moved to New Ulm in 1870, but a year or two later moved to Renville county, where the father took up a homestead. They returned to New Ulm in 1896 and here the father spent the rest of his life, dying on September 7, 1915. The mother died on January 6, 1916. To Mr. Stegeman and wife three children have been born, namely: Harry, born on July 26, 1901; Arthur, October 20, 1903, and Ruth, July 7, 1915. He and his family are members of the Evangelical church. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically, he is a Republican, but has never sought or held office. Carl Stegeman, father of Herman R., was born on May 1, 1831, and died on February 6, 1915; his wife was born on March 22, 1831, and died on October 15, 1890. They were married in 1852. In 1912 Herman R. Stegeman enlisted in the machine-gun company of the New Ulm Minnesota National Guard in which he became corporal. In 1897 he enlisted in Company A, Minnesota National Guard. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/brown/bios/stegeman476gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb