Bios of Freese, Joseph Bernhardt (b.1830) Wabasha Co., MN
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Freese, Joseph Bernhardt (page 756), who settled 36 years ago in West
Albany Township, where he began agricultural improvements that have since
resulted in a good farm now conducted by his son John, was born in
Germany, February 23, 1830. He grew to manhood in his native land and was
there married. In 1866, with his wife, Mary Elizabeth, and six children ~
five sons and one daughter, the youngest, John, being then only eight
months old ~ he took passage on a sailing vessel for New Orleans, reaching
that port safely, and then came by boat up the Mississippi river to
Bellevue, Iowa, which place the family reached November 14, the same year,
owing $60 for transportation. In his native land Mr. Freese had been a
farmer, and in Bellevue he engaged in ordinary labor, whatever he could
find to do. He and his family remained there until the fall of 1879, when
he came to Wabasha County, Minn., locating on a farm on Wabasha Hill,
three and a half miles from Wabasha village, which he rented from Charles
Roemer. There he remained four years, engaged in agricultural pursuits. In
the fall of 1884 Mr. Freese rented the Henry Curry farm in section 13,
West Albany Township, to which he and his family moved. He continued to
operate it until 1889, when he retired, and it was purchased by his son,
John, the present owner. Mr. Freese died January 9, 1902. His wife, who
was born October 24, 1838, passed away only three days before him. They
were the parents of eight children: Clement, now of Breckenridge, Minn.;
Bernhardt, a retired farmer living in Wabasha; Theresa, now Mr. Bernhardt
Kreye of Pepin Township; Joseph, a prosperous farmer of West Albany
Township; Henry, who is farming in Glasgow Township; August, a farmer in
West Albany Township; Mary, now deceased; and John, residing on the old
home farm.