Camillo Von Woehrmann Biography


	This biography appears on pages 33-34 in "History of Dakota 
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				CAMILLO VON WOEHRMANN. 

	Camillo Von Woehrmann, editor and owner of the Harney Peak Mining 
News, published at Hill City, was born in Dresden, Germany, October 4, 
1852, a son of Harry and Virginia Von Woehrmann, both of whom were 
natives of Livonia, Russia, and never left Europe to become residents 
of the new world. 

	Camillo Von Woehrmann attended college at Dresden and in 1875, 
when in the twenty third year of his age, bade adieu to friends and 
native land and sailed for the United States. He landed at New York, 
after which he traveled through Texas and Old Mexico, and in the summer 
of 1877 arrived in the Hills. For a short time he was in Deadwood and 
then went to Rockerville, where he engaged in placer mining for six 
years. He devoted the succeeding summer to prospecting for tin and in 
1885 he arrived in Hill City, where he also prospected for tin. In 1890 
he turned his attention to newspaper publication, purchasing a paper 
which had been established for about a month. He then began the 
publication of a democratic paper known as the Harney Peak Mining News, 
which he has since conducted. It is published weekly and is devoted to 
the interests of mining and to the Black Hills in general. It is a well 
patronized sheet and meets a need in the life of the community. Mr. Von 
Woehrmann is a stockholder in a number of mines near Hill City and also 
in Nevada but devotes the greater part of his attention to his 
newspaper office; which is equipped for all kinds of job printing and 
turns out excellent work. 

	In his political views Mr. Von Woehrmann has always been a 
stalwart democrat and is now serving as justice of the peace, which 
position he has occupied continuously since 1890. He is well known in 
Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite, and is 
the present master of the blue lodge at Hill City. He also has 
membership with the Elks at Rapid City. An alert, enterprising business 
man, he accomplishes what he undertakes and is ever actuated by the 
spirit of progress and advancement.