Bio of Pfeilsticker, Louis (b.1857) Wabasha Co., MN
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Pfeilsticker, Louis (page 524), a well-to-do citizen of Wabasha, who is
operating a farm in the southeastern part of the city, was born at Read's
Landing, Wabasha County, January 21, 1857 son of Louis and Theresa
(Hummel) Pfeilsticker. The father came to Wabasha County, Minnesota, from
Prussia in 1848. He was a baker by trade, and soon after arriving here
became cook for loggers on the Chippewa river, which occupation he was
engaged in till 1855 or 1856. He was then married at Read's Landing to
Theresa Hummel, with whom he had become acquainted at that place, and in
1857 he started in the bakery and confectionery business at Wabasha, a
business that he operated until his death at the comparatively early age
of 45 years. His widow subsequently became the wife of Louis Hauswedell of
this county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pfeilsticker were: Louis,
Jr. , the direct subject of this sketch; Louisa, born December 11, 1858,
who married Peter Jacobs and died in 1915; Emma, Born December 25, 1860,
who is now Mrs. Peter Theisen, of Zumbro Falls, Wabasha County; Eda, born
May 1, 1862, who died in 1864; August, born in August, 1866 who died at
Wabasha in 1875; and Frank A., born in 1869, married Elizabeth Klas, and
is living on a farm in Wabasha County. Louis Pfeilsticker after leaving
school working on his stepfather's farm until reaching the age of 20
years. In 1877 he entered the employ of W.S.McArthur, a cooper, in
Wabasha, with whom he remained, however, but one winter, in the following
year going to Brookings County, South Dakota, where he homesteaded 160
acres of wild land, 14 miles west of the present city of Brookings, though
at that time there was but one house there. On that farm he remained for
about three years, and then in 1881 returned to Wabasha and resumed the
cooper's trade with W.S.McArthur, with whom he remained until 1883. On
April 5 in the latter year he was united in marriage with Caroline, a
daughter of John and Magdaline Kirchner, of Wabasha. She was born in
Mormon Coolie, La Crosse County, Wis., December 10, 1862, and came with
her parents to this county when two years of age. In the year of his
marriage he bought a block in the southeast corner of Wabasha city, a
tract of wild land, to which he subsequently added until he had 16 acres.
On this he built a modern residence, a modern barn and outbuildings , and
has since resided on and operated the place. In 1888 Mr. Pfeilsticker
exchanged his Brookings County farm for 160 acres lying just on the edge
of Wabasha city, a piece of land on which there were no improvements, but
today is a good farm. Previous to his, in 1884, Mr. Pfeilsticker had
entered the employ of the Big Jo Milling Co. of Wabasha, with whom he
remained as foreman until1914. During this period of 30 years his farm was
operated by his sons, but since the latter date he has operated it
himself, having then severed his connection with the milling company. In
about 1912 he purchased 52 acres of meadow land in Greenfield Township. He
is a member of Waupahasa Lodge, No. 14, A.F.&A.M.; the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; White Oak Camp, No. 2077, M.W.A., and the Good Samaritans,
all of Wabasha. In politics he is Republican, and he and his family are
members of the German Reformed church. To Mr. And Mrs. Pfeilsticker have
been born ten children, as follows: Louis Phillip, born August 23, 1884,
who is engaged in the grocery and implement business in Wabasha; on
November 1, 1904, he married Jessie Dunn, and they have four children,
Eleanor H., Vera, Phillip and Lee J. George John, born August 13, 1885,
who is in the employ of the Big Jo Milling Co., and who married Cora
Barton and has five children, Edith Dorothy, Carrol, Robert and Georgia;
Olivia, born July 17, 1887, Mrs. A,L. Kyllo, Grantsburg, Wis.; Frank
Albert, born July 27, 1890, a farmer in Wabasha, who married Vemba Brown
and has three children, Florence, Vemba Louise, and Wilfred; Dora Theresa,
born September 7, 1892, wife of Peter Klass, of Wabasha, whose children
are Peter, Dorothy and Donald; August, born December 16,1894, now a
resident of Wabasha, who served as a soldier in European theater of the
recent World's War, and who married Blanche Davison and has one child
Marian; Allen Henry, born March 6, 1896, who died in Wabasha, July 23,
1905; Charles Leonard, born May13, 1900; John Walter K., born December 30,
1905; and William Joseph, born January 14, 1907. The three last mentioned
are residing at home and attending school.