Bios of Freese, John (b.1866) Wabasha Co., MN
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Freese, John (page 756), a prominent representative of the farming
interests of West Albany Township, where he has resided for over 40 years,
was born in Hanover, Germany, March 6, 1866, son of Joseph Bernhardt and
Mary Elizabeth Freese. As a babe he accompanied his parents, together with
a sister and four brothers, to the United States, journeying on a
sailing-vessel to New Orleans, and thence up the river to Bellevue, Iowa,
where he attended the common school, and where the family remained until
the fall of 1879, when they came to Wabasha County, Minn. Here his
education was supplemented by three months in the Sisters' school at
Wabasha, and was afterwards associated with his father on the home farms,
first on Wabasha Hill, and then in section 13, West Albany, where he now
lives, until the father's death in 1902. He then bought the farm, which
his father had rented, and has since remained its proprietor, carrying on
general farming and successfully breeding Shorthorn cattle and
Duroc-Jersey hogs. The farm, which is now one of the best in the township,
has been made so largely by his own exertions. It contains in all 216
acres, of which 100 acres are improved land in section 13, and the other
56 acres timber land on the Zumbro bottoms, near by. The original
buildings were poor, the house being partly of frame and partly of log
construction. Mr. Freese has replaced it with a large two-story frame
house, consisting of an upright and wing, and has built a good frame barn,
a machine-shed, double corn crib, hog house and other necessary
structures. He raises from 40 to 50 head of cattle annually and about the
same number of hogs, and is doing a prosperous business. His operating
equipment includes the usual farm machinery and some eight or ten horses,
and he owns a fine Oakland auto. In politics Mr. Freese was formerly a
Republican, but has joined the Non-partisan League. He has served his
township several terms as supervisor, is still serving in that office, and
has been a member of the local school board for years. In addition to his
direct farming interests, he is one of the directors of the Theilman State
Bank, is treasurer of the Farmers' Elevator Co. of Theilman, and is a
stockholder in the Terminal Packing Co. of St. Paul, and in the Wabasha
"Leader" (now his party's organ), and of the "Daily Star" of Minneapolis.
He is also a member of the Equitable Fraternal Union of St. Paul. Mr.
Freese was married October 7, 1902, to Augusta Markus, who was born in
Trout Creek Valley, Glasgow Township, this county, June 29, 1876, daughter
of Henry and Mary (Krull) Markus. Of the six children born to him and his
wife, one died in infancy. Those living, with their birth dates, are as
follows: Marie C., February 14, 1904; Gertrude, March 8, 1908; Arthur J.,
March 19, 1910; Elizabeth B., May 16, 1912; and Clarence J., May 26, 1914.
Mr Freese was reared a Catholic, and he and his family are members of St.
Joseph's parish at Theilman, he also being a trustee of the parish.