Bio of Nibbe, Herman G. (b.1879) Wabasha Co., MN
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Nibbe, Herman G. (p. 749), a prominent representative of the agricultural
interests of Gillford Township, the owner and operator of a good farm, and
who is also a stockholder in various other business enterprises, was born
in Belvidere township, Goodhue county, April 24, 1879, son of John and
Barbara (Katz) Nibbe. He was early trained to agricultural pursuits and
acquired his education in the district school. Reared by Joseph Holst of
Belvidere, he remained with him eight years, and for five or six years was
an ordinary farm hand. Finally he started in for himself, renting the Kin
Rogers farm in Mt. Pleasant Township, where he remained ten years. In 1911
he bought his present farm of 160 acres in sections 3 and 4, Gillford
Township, an improved farm, but with an old set of buildings. This
deficiency he has remedied by the erection of a new set of modern type,
including a two-story, ten-room house, electrically lighted; a barn for
stock and hay, 30 by 50 by 18 feet, with an "L" for horses 28 by 32 by 18
feet; a stave silo 12 by 26, and other good buildings. Mr. Nibbe carries
on diversified farming with an energy and experience which has been
rewarded by a large measure of success. His farm is well stocked with pure
blooded Red Poll cattle, of which he has 30 head; pure blooded
Duroc-Jersey hogs, and grade Shropshire sheep. Mr. Nibbe is a member of
the Lake City and Zumbro Falls shipping associations, and is a stockholder
in the Oak Center creamery, of which he was formerly vice president; the
Terminal Packing Co. of Newport, the Farmers' Elevator at Lake City, the
Co-operative Milling Co. of Lake City, and the Wabasha County Leader. He
was married in 1900 to Freda Catherine Meincke, who was born May 29, 1876,
daughter of Henry and Anna E. (Tomfordt) Meincke of Mt. Pleasant Township.
He and his wife are the parents of four children: Alfred Henry, born in
1901, who attended agricultural college and is now on the home farm;
Norman George, born in 1903, who is a student in the Lake City High
School; Anetta Henrietta, born in 1906, also a student in the Lake City
high school; and George Wilmer, born in 1911. Mr. Nibbe and his family are
affiliated religiously with the Trinity congregation of the Evangelical
Lutheran church, the local organization being known as the "Lincoln
Church."