Bio of Moritz Anding (d.1897) Wabasha Co., MN

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Moritz Anding, one of the hardy pioneers of Wabasha County, now deceased, 
who developed a farm in Gillford Township, was a native of Germany, where 
he learned and followed the trade of copper. He was there married to 
Dorothy Clemenhagen, and continued his residence in his native land until 
1853, when he came with his family to America, locating in Iowa County, 
Wis., not far from the village of Highland. The nearest place worth 
calling a market was Galena, Ill., 50 miles distant, whence with an ox 
team he hauled his farm products and brought back necessary supplies. 
When he arrived at Highland from Germany he had practically no money. 
The trip had been a long one, lasting nearly three months, as they had 
crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and as there was no railroad from 
Madison, Wis., to Highland, they hired a team to transport them and their 
luggage. The hire of this wagon and team cost $25, and the driver refused 
to reload their things until he had been paid. This Mr. Anding was unable 
to do, and the neighbors, who proved very kind, came to his assistance. 
His family then numbered seven people, and to support them he worked at 
whatever he could find to do, laying stone, plastering, or anything else. 
In the spring of 1866 he came with them to Wabasha County, Minn., having 
previously bought some wild land in section 13 Gillford Township, and his 
son William having come the previous fall and being already on the ground. 
William in the meanwhile had been splitting rails and fencing the farm. 
With his son’s assistance Mr. Anding grubbed and cleared the land and 
built a frame house, hauling the lumber from Read’s Landing with horses, 
as he had bought two horse teams from Wisconsin. On this farm Mr. Anding 
lived seven years, at the end of which time he sold 80 acres of it to his 
son William, and the rest to a neighbor, and moved with his wife to 
Read’s Landing. There Mrs. Anding died in the fall of 1878, and Mr. 
Anding subsequently married a lady of Minneapolis, where he took up his 
residence and died in August, 1897. By his first wife, Dorothy, he had 
eight children: Mary, now the widow of Fred Stahman, formerly of Lake 
Township, Wabasha County; Georgiana, who married Charles Hornbogen, a 
carpenter of Read’s Landing; Frederick, deceased; William, of Gillford 
Township; Mary, the widow of Capt. Henry Slocum of Winona; Charles, a 
resident of Winona; Herman, an engineer who died at Pierre, S.D., where 
his family is still living; and Lizette, wife of Edwin Porter of St. Paul. 
Mr. Anding was a hard worker and a useful man in his township, ready to 
lend a hand to any project for the public welfare. He donated and hauled 
the lumber for the first schoolhouse, which he also built, with the 
assistance of Sam McCullom. His son William, then only a boy, drove the 
team which hauled the first load of lumber for the schoolhouse. Mr. 
Anding also served as first treasurer of the school district, and that 
office has always been held by some member of the family, his grandson, 
William H., being now the incumbent.

Note: This biography was taken from the book “History of Wabasha County” 
copyrighted in 1920.