Turner County, SD Biographies.....Weiland, Albert January 19, 1854 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

ALBERT WEILAND is an old settler and one of the prominent and influential members of
the farming community of Monroe township, Turner county, in section 20 of which he
owns 320 acres of fertile land besides 195 acres near Monroe. This township has been
his home for almost twenty years; his memory recalls many different scenes from
those that now meet his view when he looks about him, and he realizes the changes
which have taken place since his arrival. He has been somewhat instrumental in
accomplishing the result, and may well be proud of his connection with the
development of a grand state.

Our subject is of German birth and parentage, having been born in West Prussia,
January 19, 1854, and made his native place his residence until seventeen or
eighteen years of age, gleaning his education in the common schools of the
neighborhood. When he came to America in 1872 he located in Dane county, Wis., and
was there engaged for the following four years at farm labor, three years of which
were spent at one place and the balance on different farms in the neighborhood. In
the spring of 1878 he arrived in Dakota territory and located on the farm whereon he
now makes his home and where he has since lived. His estate comprises 515 acres, and
all of this he operates and attends to himself. He commenced with nothing and is
therefore essentially a self-made man. The debt of seventy-five dollars he borrowed,
with which to pay his passage to America, he has long ago liquidated and has now a
strong foothold on the road to prosperity. His dwelling is one of the finest in the
township, and his estate abounds with good buildings which have been designed for
the convenient and economical prosecution of the farm work. He does a general
farming and stock-raising business, and has been very successful in the prosecution
of his chosen vocation.

Mr. Weiland was married March 26, 1881, three years after he came to Turner county,
to Miss Elizabeth Thullner, a native of Austria-Hungary, who has been a resident of
the United States since fourteen years of age. To this congenial union has been born
a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters, of whom we note the
following: The eldest child died in infancy, then in the order of their birth comes
Joseph, George, Katie, John, deceased, Clara, Albert and Frank. The family,
religiously, are members of the Catholic church, and our subject politically
affiliates with the Democrats, which party has always received his support at the
polls. He is now township treasurer, which office he has held for the last three
years, and has discharged the duties imposed with marked ability.


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