Bios of Husser, Henry (b.1861) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Husser, Henry (page 538), was born in Canton Argau, Switzerland, in 1861.
After completing his school years he learned the printing trade and stood
with that profession until 1884. A printers' strike cased him to lose a
well paying job. According to the custom of those days, the single fellows
of the striking unions had to leave and look for work elsewhere, but only
for schedule wages. His travels brought him to Bremen, where he desired to
leave for America. Not having any money for transportation, he worked as
coal pusher on a boat. In this country he earned his first money on an
oyster schooner on Chesapeake Bay by Baltimore. After that he worked on a
German newspaper in Chicago, but found a dictatorship and collections run
the same way as in the old country. He decided to work further on in the
country under more free conditions. In 1886 he sent for the rest of the
family ~ his mother, one brother and two sisters. The father had died
before that. The brother is now in California, one sister married in South
Dakota; the other sister and mother died here. In 1891 he bought a small
place in the town of Mt. Vernon and grubbed a home out of it. In 1895 he
married Mrs. Mary Farnsworth of Barabbo, Wis., born in 1861. She was the
daughter of William Farnsworth and Mary Sherf. Her father was an old
pioneer from Pennsylvania; her mother was from Saxony, Germany. In 1901
Mr. Husser bought his present place of occupation, near Minneiska, from
Mr. Val Jacob, an old pioneer form the fifties and a veteran of the Civil
War. The place had been rented before for many years, since Mr. Jacob was
old. It was all run down and very unprofitable, but was close to school,
to church and to the railroad. With the help of his wife and growing-up
son, John Husser (born in May, 1896), he improved the place, making it
highly productive. The swamp land was improved. The hilly land, formerly
all washed out, was planted to orchard fruit of many kinds and turned out
profitable. His experiments show that the Wabasha County climate and soil
are very favorable for a high class orchard fruit raising. Many kinds of
berries are also raised. A herd of nice and productive Guernsey cows roam
in pasture in summer and are well housed for winter. The family belongs to
the Catholic church, and both father and son belong to the Catholic Order
of Foresters. Mr. Husser thinks this country is all right for everybody
that is willing to work and not inclined to squander.