Bio of Hirschy, Samuel (b.) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Hirschy, Samuel, agriculturist and dealer in real estate, and senior
member of the firm of Hirschy & Son (the description of which can be found
on Chapter 35, page 1058, of the 1884 book), is a native of Canton Vaud,
Switzerland. After leaving school, in his seventeenth year, he was bred a
tanner, served a term in the army, and at twenty-four years of age came to
America and settled in Dayton, Ohio, in 1852. Worked at his trade in that
city five years, during which time he married Miss Margaret Felker, and
then in 1857 removed to Wabasha. Here he invested his means in a tract of
timbered land, oak, intending to engage in tanning business. The oak-bark
was found utterly useless for that purpose, and for some years he was
engaged in cutting and hauling wood, and such other work as he could find
profitable. In 1863 he commenced moving buildings, and finding that
business profitable, followed it until 1874, when, his health broken by
hard labor, he returned to Europe, and spent five months traveling over
the continent and the British islands. In 1870 he bought the property on
which he now resides, a tract of seventy acres in the southeast quarter of
the city, which he is rapidly converting into a fruit farm. June 7, 1882,
his dwelling was destroyed by fire, and he has since erected the
comfortable home the family now occupy. A substantial frame, two stories
in height, solid stone foundations, full basement, 28x36 feet, with an
addition 16x24 feet, one story high. Mr. Hirschy has devoted some
attention to the raising of blooded Jersey cattle, of which he has twelve
head thoroughbred, besides some other grades. He is also quite a
successful bee-culturist; has thirty-eight stands in a flourishing
condition, and is now building a winter storeroom of stone capable of
holding one hundred hives. His grapes, of which he has about fifteen
hundred vines in bearing, are in good thrifty condition, as are also his
fruit-trees and strawberry-vines. His eldest son, Louis, born in Ohio, is
now farming in the southwestern portion of the state. C. C., as before
mentioned, was born in this city, and the remaining child, a daughter-now
at home-Clara, was born on the home place December 17, 1870.
S. Hirschy & Son, C. C., general merchants, Hirschy's Block corner Main
and Pembroke streets. The business of the firm is managed by C. C.
Hirschy, the "Son" of the firm. C. C. Hirschy was born in this city March
20, 1859; was educated here and in St. Paul, finishing his course in the
business college in that city in 1880. He then entered the engineer
department of the St. Paul & Manitoba railway, and was there until the
fall of 1882, when he returned to this city and assumed charge of the
business he is now so successfully managing. This business, established
April 1, 1882, occupies the corner storeroom of the block, which was
erected by S. Hirschy in 1874. The block fronts fifty feet on Main street
and one hundred and ten feet on Pembroke. It is a substantial two-story
and basement brick and stone structure, the side walls of the first
seventy feet along Pembroke street rising forty-six feet above the
water-table. The second story of this portion of the block is finished and
furnished as a public hall. This hall is 50x70 feet, and has a seating
capacity of five hundred, the ceilings being twenty-one feet between
joists. The storeroom occupied by Hirschy & Son fronts twenty-five feet on
Main street, seventy feet on Pembroke, with entrances on both. They carry
a full stock of general merchandise, employ five clerks, and keep one
wagon for the delivery of goods.
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