Bio of BIRKHOLZ, August R. (b.1844), Wright Co., MN
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469   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY                          

  August R. Birkholz. Frederick Birkholz, the founder of the family of that 
name in Wright county, was born in Germany. As a young man he married Amelia 
Wentlund, and they had seven children: Fred, William, Charles, August, Ritka, 
Minnie and Mary. These young people, except Mary and August, came to the 
United States and settled in Wright county before 1879. In 1879 came 
Frederick Birkholz, his wife and his daughter, Mary, now Mrs. William Koutz, 
of Delano. They took up their residence with the son, Fred Birkholz, in 
Victor township. Frederick Birkholz died at the age of eighty-four, his wife 
at the age of seventy-seven. August Birkholz was born December 14, 1844, was 
reared in Germany, and there married, in 1865, to Albertina Schmaltz, who was 
born December 23, 1847. In 1880 he came to the United States with his three 
children, August H., William and Mary. He settled on eighty acres in section 
19, Victor township, and started to develop the farm. For three years he used 
a yoke of oxen in clearing the land. He built first a log house and a log 
barn, and as the time passed he erected a modern house and barns. When he 
arrived, no road led past the house, but later one was built, thus placing 
him in better connection with the outside world. August Birkholz died in 1897.