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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  PETER GEYERMAN, senior member of the mercantile firm of P. Geyerman & Sons,

Brewster, has been a resident of the town in which he lives twenty-seven years,

and has lived in Minnesota over fifty years. He participated in the stirring

events of pioneer days, and is not unfamiliar with the whistle of Indian bullets.



  Peter Geyerman was born in Germany Dec. 13, 1825, the son of Henry and

Christina (Nell) Geyerman. His father, a weaver and a veteran of Napoleon's

army, was born Dec. 6, 1791, and died Nov. 5, 1841. His mother was born in

Germany in 1795 and died in Aurora, Ill., in 1854. Mr. Geyerman came to America

July 7, 1851, and located first at Milwaukee, Wis., near which place he worked

on a farm for a few weeks. Then for a short time he worked on the Michigan

Central railroad in Indiana, but soon began chopping wood in northern Illinois,

at which he was engaged two years. He purchased a tract of timber land in

Illinois along the line of the Chicago & Aurora railroad in 1853, and during the

next two years was in the mercantile business in Aurora.



  In 1855 Mr. Geyerman came to Minnesota territory, and took a preemption claim

in Carver county. Two years later he sold out and moved to Shakopee, where for

twenty-five years he was in the mercantile business. On Oct. 5, 1881, he came to

the little town of Brewster (Hersey, it was then called) and started a general

merchandise store, in which he has been interested ever since. He has taken into

partnership two sons—Rudolph and E. A. Geyerman—and the business is now

conducted under the firm name of P. Geyerman & Sons.



  Mr. Geyerman was married at Shakopee, Minn., to Amelia Berreau, who bore him

six children, of whom the following are living: Rudolph, of Brewster, born March

1, 1864; E. A., of Brewster, born in 1867; Dr. Peter T., of Worthington, born

Aug. 20, 1874.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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