Bio for GOBLIRSCH, Frank J. (b.1874), Nicollet Co., MN

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History of Nicollet and LeSueur Counties, Minnesota, pages 511-512

FRANK J. GOBLIRSCH



Frank J. Goblirsch, county commissioner of Nicollet county, was born in 

Lafayette township on February 13, 1874. He was the son of John and

Elizabeth Goblirsch, who were natives of Austria and were married in

Austria and farmed there for some time before they emigrated to

America. 

  They came to the United States in 1869 and settled on a claim of eighty 

acres in section 20 of Lafayette township. The first labor on this claim 

was the construction of a log-house where they lived while they were 

preparing their land for tilling. They had a fine yoke of oxen and begun 

to produce crops on their land after the second year. They continued to 

till the soil and to buy more land until they had secured a tract of two 

hundred and twenty acres of fine farming land. They continued to live on 

this farm, but the boys tilled the land for them during the latter years 

of their life. 

  They were the parents of ten children: Adam, who is a farmer at 

Lafayette township;George, who is merchant and farmer at Wabasso, 

Minnesota; John, who is a farmer in Redwood County; Michael, who is a 

carpenter in Brown County; Frank J., who is the subject of this sketch; 

Charles, who is in the wholesale hardware business in Minneapolis; Anton, 

who resides on the old homestead; Andrew, who is the cashier in a bank 

in Cobden, in Brown county, and Katherine, who works for her brother 

George in his store in Wabasso. There was only about a year's difference 

in the ages of John and Elizabeth Goblirsch, and there was only about two

months' difference in the time of their deaths. He died on February

28, 1909, aged about seventy-four, and she died on April 28,1909 aged

seventy-three. 

  Frank J. Goblirsch, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the 

rural schools of Lafayette township, and worked on his father's farm 

during the summer months until May 30, 1899, at which time he was 

married to Katherine Smasal, who was a native of Lafayette. At this time 

he began his business career, starting a general store in Lafayette, 

which he continued to run until it burned out on October 2, 1908. 

He then worked for Lund & Company in their general store for six years 

and then when to Olin & Hedrin, on January 15, 1915, in their general 

store at Lafayette, where he continued to work. Four children were 

born to Frank J. and Catherine Goblirsch:

Cecelia, Agelia, Edmund, and Leo. 

  Mr. and Mrs. Goblirsch are members of the Catholic Church at New Ulm.  

Mr. Goblirsch is a Democrat in politics and has held several elective 

offices with honor. He was an alderman of the village for three years, 

was president of the village council for five years, justice of the 

peace for three years and a school clerk for four years. At the present 

time he is a county commissioner, having been elected to that office in 

the fall of 1914, taking office on January 1, 1915.

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