Turner County, SD Biographies.....Ballweg, Joseph May 1, 1840 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

JOSEPH BALLWEG is one of the representative farmers and stock raisers of Turner
county, and has been a conspicuous figure in the development and extension of its
great agricultural interests. No man has done more to promote the material welfare
of Monroe township than he, of which he has been a resident for more than sixteen
years.

Mr. Ballweg was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 1, 1840, and passed his boyhood and
grew to maturity there. He remained at home until he had attained his majority,
assisting his father on the farm, and then worked out by the year. During his early
manhood he enlisted in the Bavarian army, and participated in the war with Austria
in 1866. He was discharged from service two years later, and returned home, being
married the same year to Miss Eva Rosena Heibuher, a native of the Grand Duchy of
Baden, where she was born March 3, 1843. She was an orphan, both her parents having
passed from time to eternity when she was quite young. After their marriage Mr.
Ballweg and his bride emigrated to America and located near Madison, in Dane county,
Wis., where he found employment for the first two years, working out by the month on
a farm. The following eleven years he operated a rented farm in the same county in
the Badger state, and then, in 1879, he came to Turner county, Dak. Ter. After
investigating the lay of the country a little he decided on locating on the 160
acres which now constitutes a part of his present farm, and he also entered a timber
claim in section 10, of the same township. His present estate consists of 715 acres,
all in Monroe township, and there is no better equipped or more desirable farm in
this section of the county than his. He has devoted himself to the improvement of
his estate, and has erected an ample and commodious set of farm buildings on his
homestead, in which he anti his family live a happy life. Mr. Ballweg is essentially
a self-made man, as all he has and is he has made himself since coming to America,
besides paying a debt of $60, which he borrowed to come here, ably assisted by his
estimable wife, who has been no unimportant factor in his prosperity. He does a
general farming and stock raising business.

Mr. and Mrs. Ballweg are the parents of nine living children, viz.: Frank, Mary,
Anna, Rosa, Joseph, John, Katie, Peter and Maggie. The deceased are Thomas and
Phenia, who died in infancy. The family are members of the Catholic church, and in
political views Mr. Ballweg affiliates with the Democrats. He is also a member of
the school board.


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