Bio of Adolph WEISS (b.1865), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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ADOLPH WEISS (1900)

Adolph Weiss is one of the substantial farmers of Echo township, owning the
northwest quarter of section 31.  He was born in Germany March 31, 1865, and
is a son of Samuel and Mollie Weiss.  The father still lives in Germany; the
mother died in 1877.

Adolph Weiss grew to maturity and received his education in Germany.  At the
age of nineteen he came to the United States and located at Glencoe, McLeod
county, Minnesota.  He soon got work near Gaylord, Sibley county, on the
farm.  He was employed four years by Henry Sylvester, one year by Fred Rose
and one year by Frank Abraham.  In the fall of 1890 Mr. Weiss rented a farm
near Gaylord and operated it three years.  He then changed to another farm,
near Mountville postoffice, on which he lived eight years.

In 1900, Mr. Weiss came to Yellow Medicine county, purchasing his farm in
January of that year and moving on the same the following September.  There
he has since made his home.  In addition to the other farm work, he each
year has quite a number of horses, cattle and hogs for the market. He has an
orchard of about twenty-five apple trees and a number of plum trees.

Mr. Weiss was married in Sibley county, Minnesota, in November, 1891, to
Mary Muenchow, a native of Illinois.  Four children were born to them,
namely:  William, who is now teaching school in Yellow Medicine county; Emma
and Minnie, who lives at home; and Louise, who died at the age of ten
months.  Mrs. Weiss died on the Echo farm June 5, 1903.  Mr. Weiss was again
married, January 29, 1907, in McLeod county, to Dorothy Litschke, a native
of Minnesota.  Three children have resulted from this marriage:  Harold,
Herbert, and Lorena.

Mr. Weiss is a member of the German Lutheran church of Posen township.  He
has been treasurer of his school district the last five years.

In 1906 Mr. Weiss made a trip to the old home in Germany for a visit with
his father and spent about five months in the old country.  Two sisters of
Mr. Weiss--Mrs. William Wagner and Mrs. Gust Schubert--are also residents of
the United States, living near Buffalo, in Wright county.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914