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CHARLES A. STOLZ.

    Charles A. Stolz, well-known and enterprising hardware merchant, of New Ulm,
this county, is a native son of Minnesota, having been born in the village of
Carver, Carver county, this state, March 8,1869, son of August and Catherine
(Rothmeyer) Stolz, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Austria,
pioneers of this part of Minnesota and for many years influential and highly
respected residents of Courtland township, over the river in the neighboring
county of Nicollet, where their last days were spent.

    August Stolz was born in the province of Posen, Germany, son of sturdy
farming folk, his father a soldier in his country's wars in the forties. He had
three brothers and two sisters, Louis, William, Fred, Christina and Gertrude.
His mother, Ernestina, died and his father married again, having a son, Martin,
by his second marriage. The father died in his native land when well past middle
age. In 1851 August Stolz left Germany and came to the United States, his
journey in a sailing vessel requiring nine weeks. Upon arriving on this side he
located in Chicago, where he remained for three years, at the end of which time
he came to Minnesota and settled on the Indian reservation at what is now the
neighborhood of New Ulm, where he was employed by the government as a teamster,
and was thus a resident here when the county was organized in 1855. He also was
here during the time of the Indian uprising and massacre in 1862 and did service
for one year during the Civil War as a member of the Minnesota Heavy Artillery.
Previous to that experience he had married Catherine Rothmeyer, who had come to
this country with her widowed mother, Mrs. Barbara Rothmeyer, whose only child
she was, from Austria, she having been born and reared near the great city of
Vienna, and settled in New Ulm, a member of one of the earliest parties of
colonists which located in this part of Minnesota. The widow Rothmeyer was a
resident of this section for many years, she having been about eighty-six years
of age at the time of her death.

     At the close of his military experience August Stolz settled down on a farm
of one hundred and twenty acres, over the river in Courtland township, Nicollet
county, one mile from New Ulm, and there he established his home, cleared the
place, reared his family, became a substantial and useful citizen and spent the
rest of his life there, dying on June 24, 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years.
His widow survived him for twenty years, her death occurring on September 4,
1913, she then being seventy-six years of age. Both were earnest members of the
Lutheran church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight
of these children, namely: Minnie, wife of George P. Dietz, of New Ulm; Anna,
wife of William Boerger, of New Ulm; Charles A., the immediate subject of this
biographical sketch; Mary, unmarried, who also lives at New Ulm; Fred, the
manager of the local plant of a large lumber company at Nicollet, this state,
and three who died in youth.

     Charles A. Stoltz was reared on the paternal farm in the neighborhood of
New Ulm, receiving his elementary education in the district school in the
vicinity of his home, which he supplemented by a course in the Dr. Martin Luther
College at New Ulm, after which he entered Gustavus Adolphus College at St.
Peter, for the benefit of the business course in that institution. He then
taught school in his home district for four years, meanwhile continuing to
assist his father on the farm during the summers, and then began clerking in a
hardware store at New Ulm and was thus engaged for five years, at the end of
which time he was appointed deputy sheriff and jailer for Brown county, in which
official capacity he served for four years. In the fall of 1890 Mr. Stolz
married and for five years thereafter was engaged in managing, in his own
behalf, his father-in-law's limekiln, the Heymann kiln, in Nicollet county. At
the end of that time he returned to New Ulm and was made manager of the New Ulm
Hardware Company's store at that place. Five years later he became a half
partner in that concern and in 1913 became the sole proprietor of the store,
which he still owns and which he is operating very successfully, being one of
the best-known and most progressive merchants in this section of the state. Mr.
Stolz will owns an interest in the old home farm and is largely interested in
the Farmers and Merchants Bank of New Ulm of which sound old financial
institution he is vice-president.

     On October 14, 1890, Charles A. Stolz was united in marriage to Ida
Heymann, who was born in Cottonwood township, this county, February 2, 1866,
daughter of John and Caroline (Ruhnow) Heymann, natives of Prussia, who came to
America shortly after their marriage and settled in this county in May, 1862,
being thus among the pioneers of this section of the state. John Heymann, who
for many years has been recognized as one of the most substantial citizens of
this and Nicollet county, is still living. His wife died on September 8, 1912.
They were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are now living, Minnie,
Emma, Ida, Otto, Bertha and Tillie.

    To Charles A. and Ida (Heymann) Stolz three children have been born,
daughters all, Edna, a graduate of the New Ulm high school and a business
college, who is now bookkeeper in her father's store; Elma, a graduate of the
New Ulm high school and of the normal department of that city's excellent
schools, who is now a teacher in the public schools of the county, and Caroline,
now a student in the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Stolz are members of the
Congregational church, of which organization Mr. Stolz is one of the trustees,
and they and their daughters are regarded as among the leaders in the social and
cultural activities of the city, being held in high esteem by all. Mr. Stolz is
an "independent" in his political views and is a stanch advocate of good
government, ever holding the individual fitness of the various candidates for
public place above the mere parties which those individuals represent. He is a
member of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America, in the affairs of
which he takes a warm interest, and is also a member of the Junior Pioneers.


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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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