Bio of Carl GOTTSCHALK (b.1850), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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CARL GOTTSCHALK (1890)

Carl Gottschalk owns and farms 200 acres of land in Omro township, a short
distance from the village of St. Leo.  He has lived in many different places
and engaged in several occupations, and after spending many years as a rover
he settled down in Yellow Medicine county, where he has resided for the past
twenty-three years.

Carl was born in Braunsberg, Prussia, Germany, May 11, 1850.  His parents
were farmers in the old country, Christian and Wilhelmina (Helman)
Gottschalk by name, both of whom died in the Fatherland.  Carl secured a
common school education and at the age of fourteen years began working at
the harness maker's trade.  He worked at that trade and as a painter,
decorator and paper hanger during the rest of his life in Germany, which
continued until he was thirty years of age.

In 1880 Mr. Gottschalk came to the United States.  The first year was spent
in Newark, New Jersey, and vicinity, working at his trade and as a farm
laborer.  He crossed the continent then, stopping a while in Chicago, and
making his home in Texas one year.  Not liking the southern country, Mr.
Gottschalk came North and spent one summer working on a farm near
Minneapolis.  We next find him at Montevideo, where he resided several
years, working on a farm three years and in a harness shop several years.

Mr. Gottschalk came to Yellow Medicine county in 1890 and bought 120 acres
of his present farm on section 26, Omro, which has since been his home.  He
prospered in his new home and secured other land by purchase.  He raises
considerable stock and has interests in the Farmers Elevator Company and
Farmers Telephone Company of Boyd.  He served as a director of his school
district several years.  Mr. Gottschalk and his family are members of the
German Lutheran church, and he has been secretary of the church society nine
years.

The subject of this review was married in Lac qui Parle county February 23,
1892, to Holda Sommerfeld, who was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, April 25,
1870.  Her parents, Chris and Henrietta (Krenz) Sommerfeld were born in the
Province of Posen, Germany.  Mr. and Mrs. Gottschalk have four children:
Carl, Lydia, Ella and Richard.

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