Bio of Schurhammer, Joseph (b.1856) Wabasha Co., MN
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Schurhammer, Joseph (page 676), now living retired in Kellogg after an
active career devoted chiefly to agriculture, was born on a farm in
Greenfield Township, Wabasha County, Minn., September 8, 1856, son of
Joseph and Mary M. (Trichler) Schurhammer. The parents were born and
married in Germany and came to the United States in 1855, settling first
at Dubuque, Iowa. Thence in the spring of 1856 they came to Wabasha
County, locating on a farm in Greenfield Township, where a few months
later the subject of this sketch was born. After following agriculture
here for a number of years, both parents died. They had nine children, six
of whom are living, namely: George, Joseph, August, Minnie, Christ and
Lawrence. Minnie is the wife of Thomas Herschberger of Polk County,
Minnesota. John and Andrew are deceased and also one other child who died
in infancy. Joseph Schurhammer in his boyhood attended the district school
and at an early age began to make himself useful on his parents' farm.
There he remained until 1879, by which time he was a good practical
farmer. For two years subsequently he worked out. Then in 1881 he bought a
farm of 400 acres, together with his brother-in-law and his wife's sisters
and brother. It was the hoe farm of his father-in-law, John Huber, and
they operated it together until Joseph Schurhammer, after buying the
interests of some of the others in succession, became the sole owner of
300 acres. There he farmed until 1906, when he gave up that occupation and
removed to Kellogg. During the first two years he resided here he was
engaged in railroad work and other occupations. Then he entered into the
saloon business, which he carried on until January 10, 1920, when he
retired. Mr. Schurhammer served for several years as supervisor of
Greenfield Township and as roadmaster. He is a member of Teutonia Lodge
No. 19, and for nine years has belonged to the Odd Fellows' lodge in
Wabasha. In 1879 Mr. Schurhammer was married, in Wabasha, to Sarah Huber,
daughter of John and Caroline Huber, who were natives of Germany. Mr. and
Mrs. Schurhammer had nine children, of whom six are now living, namely:
Caroline, wife of Con Quigley, who lives on a farm in Greenfield Township;
Joseph, Jr., of Kellogg; Valentine, on the home farm; Mary M., wife of
Paul Schmoker of Greenfield Township; Leonard, of Minneiska, and Marie,
wife of Frank Spooner, living on a farm in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
Those deceased are Minnie, Andrew and Emil. Emil, who was a steel worker
in Chicago, met a tragic death in 1918 by falling nine stories off a
building. Mr. Sarah Schurhammer, the mother, died in Wabasha in March,
1920.