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

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ADOLPH HARTFIEL (1878)

Adolph Hartfiel is the owner of a 280-acre farm on sections 29 and 32, Tyro
township.  He is one of the early day settlers of western Yellow Medicine
county and is one of the prosperous men of his precinct.

In the province of Posen, Germany, on August 20, 1865, Adolph Hartfiel was
born, a son of William and Ernestina (Kuehn) Hartfiel.  The former was born
November 9, 1833, and died June 22, 1888; the latter was born June 13, 1842,
and died April 19, 1908.

Adolph lived in the Fatherland until May, 1873, and then came to America
with his parents.  The family lived on a farm in Faribault county,
Minnesota, until 1878 and then came to Yellow Medicine county.  They drove
through with a horse team, eight days being required to make the trip.  The
family arrived on May 15, their earthly possessions consisting of four
horses, two colts and four cows.

Mr. Hartfiel, Sr., had visited the county the year before and filed a
homestead claim to land on section 30, Tyro township.  On that the family
located, erecting a little 10 x 12 foot frame house, in which they lived
until 1893.  When they arrived, Tyro township had only about twenty
families.  Calamities overtook the newcomers.  In the fall of 1880 one of
the famous prairie fires swept over the vicinity and destroyed all the
possessions of the Hartfiels except the house.  During the "snow winter" the
family ran short of provisions and like many of their neighbors were obliged
to manufacture their flour from wheat in a coffeemill.  Hay and straw
supplied the fuel, and Adolph remembers that during that winter he was
obliged to carry straw on his back a distance of half a mile that the house
might be kept warm.

Adolph lived at the parental home in Tyro until his marriage in 1892.  Then
he bought a farm in Omro township and farmed it until 1902.  Before that
date he had bought part of his present farm in Tyro, and in 1902 he bought
the rest, improved the farm, and he has ever since made his home thereon.

Mr. Hartfiel served as a director of school district No. 80 three years.  He
was constable of Omro township four years, and he held a like position in
Tyro four years.  For several terms he was road overseer.  He and his family
are members of the German Lutheran church of Tyro township.

The marriage of Mr. Hartfiel to Emma (Eckhardt) Hartfiel occurred at Granite
Falls January 9, 1892.  His wife was born in the province of Posen, Germany,
March 31, 1871, and came to the United States in 1873.  Her father,
Frederick Eckhardt, is a resident of Omro township; her mother, Amalia
(Stubbe) Eckhardt, died in Faribault county, Minnesota, March 23, 1883.  The
children of Adolph Hartfiel and wife are as follows:  Willie, born November
5, 1892; Clara, born February 8, 1895; Emma, born August 11, 1897; Adolph,
born September 5, 1899; Alma, born September 2, 1901; Elsie, born May 3,
1904; Viola, born May 19, 1906; Cecelia, born November 10, 1909; and Ursula,
born October 1, 1911.

By a former marriage to Emil Hartfiel, a brother of Adolph, Mrs. Hartfiel
had two children: Leo, born June 11, 1888; and Minnie born August 26, 1890,
died April 5, 1908.

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