Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Weilandt, Carl Otto 1879 - 
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CARL OTTO WEILANDT.

     Carl Otto Weilandt, well-known millman, contractor and builder, head of the
prosperous and progressive firm of Weilandt & Stegeman at New Ulm, this county,
is a native son of Minnesota, having been born on a farm in Wellington township,
Renville county, January 22, 1879, son of Carl and Augusta (Fitzlaff) Weilandt,
natives of Germany. He died on September 4, 1915; she died January 6, 1916.

     Carl Weilandt is the third in order of birth of the six children born to
his parents, Julius Weilandt and wife, well-to-do farming people of the vicinity
of Schiefelbein, in the province of Pomerania, Germany, the others being Julius,
Herman, Herminia, Augusta and Mary. He grew to manhood on the home farm and
became a farmer on his own account. When a young man he- came to America and
settled in the Northwest. In 1863 he came to the United States, proceeding
directly to Minnesota and settling at New Ulm, good reports of which thriving
settlement had reached the Fatherland. For a time after coming here, Carl
Weilandt worked in a brickyard at New Ulm, but presently he "got his bearings,"
and in 1865 homesteaded a tract of one hundred and twenty acres in Penville
[sic] county and there he established his home, gradually developing and
improving the place until he came to be regarded as one of the substantial
farmers of that neighborhood. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran
church and ever took their part in the good works of the community during their
long residence in Renville county. Six children were born to them, but two of
whom lived to maturity, Ida, who married Herman R. Stegeman, well-known builder
and contractor and millman, of New Ulm, and Carl Otto, the subject of this
review. When well past middle age, Carl Weilandt and his wife retired from the
farm and moved to New Ulm, where they made their home until their death.

     Carl Otto Weilandt was reared on the homestead farm in Renville county,
receiving his elementary education in the district school in the neighborhood of
his home, which he supplemented by taking a business course in the Dr. Martin
Luther College at New Ulm, to which he added a further course in a
correspondence school in which he acquired a thorough technical knowledge of
carpentry and building. When nineteen years of age he took up the practical side
of the carpentry trade and shortly became a competent craftsman in that line,
following the trade as a journeyman carpenter for a number of years. He then, in
1904, formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Herman R. Stegeman, and the
firm established a planing-mill in New Ulm and engaged in the general building
and contracting business, in which it has been very successful, many of the best
buildings in and about New Ulm testifying to the substantial character of the
work done by Weilandt & Stegeman, the firm early having acquired a fine
reputation as skilful and reliable builders.

     On July 23, 1903, Carl O. Weilandt was united in marriage to Louisa
Schroer, who was born and reared in New Ulm, daughter of Henry and Mary Schroer,
natives of Westphalia, Germany, and tolerably early settlers in New Ulm, where
both spent their last days. Mrs. Weilandt is the fourth eldest of thirteen
children born to her parents, the others who grew to maturity being Emma, Mary,
Minnie, William, Fred, Herman, Carl and Ernest. Mr. and Mrs. Weilandt are
members of the Lutheran church and take a warm interest in the general
beneficences of the same, being held in high esteem throughout the entire
community. Mr. Weilandt is a wide-awake and public-spirited citizen, deeply
interested ifi, the progress and welfare of his home community, and occupies a
firm place in the regard of business circles generally hereabout.


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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