Bio of Oswald, H. Wabasha Co., MN
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Oswald, H., proprietor of Commercial Hotel, corner of Main and Bailly
streets. This house, the property of Lucas Kuehn, was about one-half its
present size when Mr. Oswald took possession, in 1879, with the
understanding that it should be immediately enlarged and the whole put in
first-class condition. As it now stands, the hotel fronts one hundred and
twenty feet on Main street, seventy feet on Bailly, with ample office,
billiard room, bar, sample-rooms, kitchen, dining-rooms, parlors and
family rooms on the first floor, and well arranged guest rooms on the
second; of these latter there are thirty-two. The dining-room facing on
Bailly street is 30x40 feet, and the table and service such as befit a
first-class hotel. The situation of the house is pleasant, at the east end
of the principal street of the city, with a charming river view, and such
gorgeous sunsets as the sun dips behind the bluffs in the west, as are
seldom seen in any land. All the appointments of the house are
first-class, and the popularity of the management is evidenced by the fact
that the house is always full, and cots a nightly necessity. A good
omnibus line runs to all the trains and day-boats, and travelers arriving
in the city at any hour find no difficulty in reaching the hotel. The
business of the house is thirty per cent in advance of corresponding
period of 1882. Mr. Oswald is a native of Saxony; came to America in 1866,
and three years later settled in Duluth, where he was engaged in tobacco
manufacture. He was living at Red Wing for three years, before coming to
this city, in 1879, to assume charge of the Commercial Hotel. Mr. Oswald
married Miss Selma Beckert the year before he left Europe for America.
They have but one child living, Brunhilda, born in this city October 5,
1882.