Bio of Stauff, Charles J. Wabasha Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Timm and Carol Judge
=========================================================================
This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
Check out Barbara's site for more great information on this book:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab1.htm
There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some 
of the bios on her pages.

Stauff, Charles J. (page 941), clerk of the district court of the third
judicial district of Minnesota, a position he has now held by successive
re-election since 1869, is a native of Germany. Attended school there
until he was eleven years of age, when he came to America with his
father's family (Carl Christian Stauff), who settled in Greenfield
township, in this county, on the farm now owned by George Albertson. The
date of their arrival at Read's Landing, Wabasha county, was June 20,
1854. Charles was still living on the old home farm when the war broke out
in 1861, and on the 13th of February of the following year he enlisted in
the 5th Minn. Inf. regt., followed the fortunes of that command until the
close of the war, and, having successively promoted through all the
intermediate grades, was mustered out as first lieutenant September 27,
1865. Returning to the old homestead he remained one year, then came to
Wabasha and was clerk in the general merchandising house of Prindle,
Mullen & Co. until 1869, when he was nominated and elected clerk of the
court, and still holds that office, his present term expiring in 1886.
October 27, 1869, Mr. Stauff married Miss M. I. Durand, of Cook's Valley,
in this county. They have one son, Homer C., born December 25, 1874, and
now attending school in this city.