Bio of STRECKER, Christian (b.1869), Wright Co., MN
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1030 HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Christian Strecker, a progressive farmer of South Side township, was born 
in Germany, November 13, 1869, son of Michael and Rosina (Diedrich) Strecker. 
The parents came to America in 1886 and settled in Clearwater township, 
this county, where they bought eighty acres in section 14, cleared and 
developed the place, and there remained until their death, the mother 
dying in 1912 at the age of seventy-two, and the father in 1909 at the 
age of seveuty-seven. Christian Strecker came to this country with his 
parents, and at the age of twenty-one began working out as a farm hand. 
About 1894 he rented a farm in section 24, South Side township, from 
J. F. Lee. In 1903 he bought a farm of forty acres in section 11, in the 
same township. It was in 1904 that he sold out and bought eighty acres in 
section 15. It was not until 1907 that he moved onto this place. In the 
meantime, for five years, while still living on the farm, he maintained 
a partnership with his brother, Gottlieb, in the meat business in South 
Haven. Mr. Strecker now successfully conducts general farming. In 1910 he 
erected a barn, 46 by 54 feet, with a capacity of twenty-five cattle, six 
horses and forty tons of hay. In 1913 he remodeled the house. In addition 
to raising the usual crops and stock, Mr. Strecker has a vineyard of a 
quarter of an acre of grapes which are very productive. Mr. Strecker is 
a stockholder in the Luce electric line and the South Haven rural telephone 
line, and a member of the German Lutheran church. Mr. Strecker was married, 
September 24,1895, to Augusta Schildt, who was born December 27, 1877, 
daughter of John and Minnie Schildt, the former of whom died in 1912 at 
the age of fifty-seven and the latter in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Strecker have 
had nine children: Anna, William, Loretta, Louis, Theodore, Eninia, Luella, 
Lester and Emil. The latter died in 1898 at the age of one year.