Bio of Reusch, William E. (b.1845) Wabasha Co., MN
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Reusch, William E., (page 1220), merchant, Lake City, was born in Hanover,
Germany, June 14, 1845. When he was but nine years old, his father, Joseph
Reusch, died, leaving to be reared on a farm by his mother. He received a
good common-school education in his native language, to which he has
added, by reading and observation, a comprehensive knowledge of the
English in this country. He was married February 6, 1870, to Miss Emma F.
Miller, who was born in the city of Hamburg, September 8, 1837. She was
also left an orphan at the age of four years, by the death of her father,
and was raised in Lutheran Protestant hospital. On February 17, 1875, he
sailed from the city of Hamburg on board the steamship Pomerania,
commanded by Capt. Swenson, for New York, where they arrived on March 2.
He came direct to Minnesota, and settled in Frontinac, where he engaged in
trade till October, 1876, when he removed to Lake City. Here he opened a
grocery store and conducted a successful business till the great fire of
April, 1882, when his property was consumed, though partially insured. On
the 22d of the same month he purchased a two-story brick store, in size
20x82 feet in block 25, fronting on Center street, and at once put in a
stock of groceries and liquors, where he is now doing a fair business.
Early in the spring of 1882 he sent to the old country for his brother,
Joseph C. Reusch and family, who had arrived and took up quarters with him
the night of the fire, thus losing all their household goods, and leaving
them destitute of everything but friends in a strange land. Mr. Reusch is
a fair dealing man and merits a fair share of the public patronage.