Bio of Joseph Rolandt (b.1856)Wabasha Co., MN

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Note: This Biography is taken from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted 1920.

Rolandt - 

Joseph Rolandt, a prominent representative of the farming industry in 
Gillford Township, was born in Mechlenburg, Germany, June 8, 1856, son 
of Henry and Mary Schultz Rolandt. He came to America with his family 
in the fall of 1874, the family settling on a farm in West Albany 
Township, where Joseph lived until about 1894. The father, Henry Rolandt, 
died in the fall of 1896, and the mother in the spring of 1906. Joseph 
had been given a common school education in Germany and attended school 
two winters after coming to Wabasha County. He began work as a farm hand 
three days after arriving in the county, and was four years in the employ 
of Christ Wempner. On December 16, 1879, He married Anna Stohrman, who 
was born in Glasgow Township, October 27, 1862, daughter of Frederick and 
Mary Stohrman, and at the time of his marriage he bought a farm of 80 
acres in section 13, Gillford Township, where he remained five years. 
He then sold that place and bought 160 acres in section 23. This was a 
farm with improved land, but poor buildings, and Mr. Rolandt built better 
ones, though with an eye to further improvements in the future. In 1906 
he rebuilt the house, which is now a comfortable two-story residence; and 
in 1915 he erected a good frame barn and has now all necessary buildings. 
He is successfully following diversified farming, keeping grade Hereford 
cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs and Shropshire sheep; he also does dairying and 
is the owner of a threshing outfit. In politics he is independent. He and 
his family are members of the Jacksonville congregation of the Evangelical 
Lutheran Church, which he served as trustee for a number of years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Rolandt have been the parents of six children: Clara S., born 
October 15, 1880; Alvina M., May 5, 1882; Anna Minnie, April 26, 1886; 
Frederick H., June 24, 1892; Joseph F., September 29, 1894; Alfred 
Frederick, May 19, 1901. Clara S. is still residing on the home farm. 
Alvina M. married John Burfiend of Mt. Pleasant Township and died May 13, 
1918. Anna Minnie is the wife of Herman Heldt, a farmer of Goodhue County. 
Frederick H., who took a mechanical course at the Southern Normal 
University at Austin, Minnesota, served in the World War, being inducted 
in the U.S. service as a private in 1917. He trained at Camp Dodge, Iowa, 
and promoted to corporal in the auto mechanic department, Company C, A. E. 
F., and served in France, going across in November, 1918. He served until 
March 1919, being attached to the 313th ammunition train. Joseph F. is a 
farmer in Gillford Township.

Note: This biography was take from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted in 1920.
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