Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10042 Surname: ------------------------- I found a Grimes family of siblings living together in the 1900 census, Eden township, Brown County. Names: Henry (August 1872, age 27); Katie (October 1869, age 30); ?ittie L.(September 1871, age 28); & Eugene (April 1880, age 20). All born in Minnesota & single. Henry is listed as the head of household. Hope this is of help.

We have just added to the story about the BROWN County Poor Farm (which we had previously published)a picture postcard of the building which we believe may have been recently demolished. The building is certainly not very beautiful...but it IS history. The contrast (which we show on the same page)between the 19th century and 20th century institutional architecture is quite striking! So...We would like to invite you to revisit The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses)at http://www.poorhousestory.com DIRECTIONS: At the homepage (link above)please click on POORHOUSES BY STATE and then click on MINNESOTA on the table of states. You will see the link to the page of pictures near the top of the page and marked with a big yellow NEW arrow. Note: If you have visited the IMINNESOTA page on our website recently, you may need to click REFRESH on your browser to see the new material.) There are some other pages on the site which may help you better understand poorhouses. They are all linked (to the left)off the homepage and include: HISTORY, LETTER TO GENEALOGISTS, and FEATURED ARTICLES. You may want to also review the ARCHIVED NEWSLETTERS to get an overview of what has been posted on the website and what some of our issues have been. The only way the material on the website will grow is through the suggestions and submissions of kind readers like you! So if you would like to e-mail me, PLEASE do so OFF-list using an e-mail link from our website. (I cannot maintain subscriptions to all the lists to which we make announcements.) Hope you enjoy the site! Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/BrownObits/10031 Surname: Stoltzenberg, Meyerding ------------------------- From the New Ulm Review of 30 APR 1886 DROWNED -- A sad case of accidental drowning occurred at Redstone last Friday afternoon. Mr. Albert Stoltzenberg, aged twenty years, was out in the Minnesota river in a boat, having a second boat attached to the one he occupied. The boat he was in being in a leaky condition he attempted to jump into the other boat and in so doing lost his balance and fell into the river, at once sinking to the bottom. Mr. Stoltzenberg was a harness maker by trade and until a few days previous to his drowning had worked at St. Peter. His parents reside at Redstone and he was spending a short vacation at home previous to going to work in this city. Mr. F. Meyerding, who knew Stoltzenberg well, says he was a good swimmer and that he must have been seized with cramps when he struck the water, else he would certainly have reached the shore, but a few feet distant. The body was recovered Sunday morning at the mouth of the Big Cottonwood river. Deceased was a most exemplary young man and his sudden death is indeed a sad blow to his parents.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/BrownObits/10030 Surname: Stolzenburg, Fischer, Schroeder, Albrecht ------------------------- From the New Ulm Review 2 APR 1924 MRS. CHRIST STOLZENBURG Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock occurred the death of an old New Ulm resident, Mrs. Christ Stolzenburg, nee Rosena Fischer, at the Union Hospital. The cause of her death was pneumonia from which she suffered for three weeks. Deceased was born December 4, 1842 in Schoenfeld, Pommera, Germany. In 1868 she was united in marriage to her surviving husband and in 1882 they came to America and settled in Lewiston, Minn. They remained there for three years and then removed to Richstone and in 1895 they settled in New Ulm, having lived here for forty years. Eight children were born to this union but only one daughter survives. Besides her sorrowing husband and daughter, Mrs. August Schroeder of Morrison, Ill., the deceased is survived by nine grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. Services for Mrs. Stolzenburg will be held at Buenger's undertaking parlors Friday afternoon at one o'clock, Rev. C. J. Albrecht having charge. The remains will then be taken to the home of her daughter in Morrison, Ill., where funeral services will be held at the chapel Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Six grandchildren of the deceased will act as pallbearers. They are Herman, Charles, Frank, John, George and Edward Schroeder.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/BrownObits/10029 Surname: Stoltenburg, Fischer, Hayens, Dierks ------------------------- From the New Ulm Review 25 January 1928 CHRISTIAN STOLTENBURG Local residents will be interested to learn of the death of a former New Ulm resident, Christian Stoltenburg which occurred at the Sterling Public Hospital at Morrison, Ill., at nine o'clock in the evening of January 12. Mr. Stoltenburg suffered a stroke a week before and was critically ill since then and was taken to the hospital on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was born on July 1, 1842 at Schoenfeld, Germany and was married to Rosine Wilhelmina Fischer in Germany on December 11, 1868. They came to America in 1882, making their home in New Ulm until 1923 when Mr. Stoltenburg went to Morrison where he made his home with Mrs. Frank Hayens for the past two years. The wife and seven children of Mr. Stoltenburg preceded him in death and he was the last one to bear the name of the family. Funeral services were held at the Reynold funeral home Sunday, January 15, at two o'clock, Rev. Theo. Dierks, pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran church officiating. Interment was made in the Grove Hill cemetery.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Brown/10039 Surname: Otto ------------------------- There was an Aug(ust?) Otto on the Brown County, MN plat map, c1890 Bill Grimes

Hi all ... Does anyone know who the below person is? They are on both the DIGEST and regular mail list, but apparently the address is no longer valid. Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] *************** >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> <<< 550 <alfred> is now disabled with SMTP service. 550 5.1.1 [email protected] User unknown

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10038 Surname: Grimes ------------------------- Looking for info on Grimes family that live in Eden Twp. c1885-1915.

Hi Pamela Have you received an answer to your question about the Stohlmann Photo Studio yet? If not, I'll ask some of my contacts in New Ulm about it, and pass the info to you. Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] Researching surnames: SCHWEISS .. MEIER .. SCHMITT/SCHMIDT .. STADTHER(R) .. MEHLTRATER My Genealogy Site: http://www.harbornet.com/folks/dick/SchweissFamilyHistory.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kebis, Pamela E" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 06:37 Subject: Photo Studio - New Ulm > Does anyone know what years this photo studio was in business? I have a > number of pictures, but this is the first I have seen from this studio.. > > G. Stohlmann, Photographic Studio, New Ulm > > Thankyou > Pamela (Wagner) Kebis > > > ==== MNBROWN Mailing List ==== > The Legacy Family Tree program .... > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11H B > >

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10037 Surname: MARTINE, WARRING ------------------------- I am looking for the descendents of Isaac Martine b. 1824 NY and Elizabeth Ann Warring b. possibly Cornwall England. They married 1866 in Racine Co WI. Isaac is the brother of my great great grandfather John F. Martine b. 1832 NY. The two brothers came to Racine Co WI around 1850, and apparently lived together on the same farm with their spouses. They both enlisted in the army during the Civil War 1861; both were wounded, disabled and discharged by 1862. Both came to Minnesota after 1866; John F. took his family to Rochester MN, and Isaac brought his to Brown Co MN, where he was to spend the rest of his life. He died in 1897. I believe Isaac and his family lived in the community of Sleepy Eye?? in Brown Co MN. Anyone connected with this family please contact me directly. I now have lots of info that I would love to share!

Does anyone know what years this photo studio was in business? I have a number of pictures, but this is the first I have seen from this studio.. G. Stohlmann, Photographic Studio, New Ulm Thankyou Pamela (Wagner) Kebis

Hi to all on the list. Looks like there's a new virus being passed around, so be careful with your email.. " Alarm bells have been going off at the antivirus companies. McAfee discovered a nasty new Internet worm "in the wild" on April 11, 2001 and traced its origin to New Zealand. They officially dubbed it W32/[email protected] Tell me more Symantec's Antivirus Research Center uncovered the new virus on the same day and decided to call it [email protected] Tell me more. F-Secure spotted the worm on its radar a day later and added it to their rogue's gallery as simply BadTrans. Tell me more.. Whatever you call it, this new email virus is a bad boy, with a password-stealing Trojan routine that could potentially cause a surprising amount of damage. Today I'll tell you how bad it is, how to protect yourself and all about Microsoft's big plans to eradicate this type of virus altogether". Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] Researching surnames: SCHWEISS .. MEIER .. SCHMITT/SCHMIDT .. STADTHER(R) .. MEHLTRATER My Genealogy Site: http://www.harbornet.com/folks/dick/SchweissFamilyHistory.htm My Main Web Page: http://www.angelfire.com/wa/TheSwamp

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10036 Surname: SOUKUP, SUKUP, GROBNER, RUDOLPH, SCHROPFER, RUBEY, URBAN ------------------------- I would like to connect with someone who is descended from Johann SOUKUP born 1846 in Hoslau, Bohemia. Johann married Rosalia GROBNER in Bohemia. He and his father Georg SOUKUP (who was unable to travel) were the only members of their family to stay in the "old country" the rest immigrating to America in 1870 and 1871. I am not sure if any of Johann descendants came to the US. Johann and Rosalia had 4 children: 1. Andreas Soukup who married Anna RUDOLPH their children were Katherine, Anna, Andrew, and Georg Soukup. 2. Barbara Soukup who married a SCHROPFER their children were Franz, Josef, Anna, and Barbara Schropfer. 3. Maria Soukup (born 11 Nov 1875) who married Josef RUBEY their children Georg (born 1901), Joseph Jr. (born 1905), Anna, and Franz (born 1912) Rubey 4. Anna Soukup (born 1876) who married Georg URBAN their children Anreas (born 1901), Joseph (born 1901), and John Urban. If anyone has a connection to any of these lines I would love to get in touch with you. I am descended from Johann's brother Wenzel.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/BrownObits/10027 Surname: BACKER ------------------------- Allen Henry Backer STATESMAN JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON Dec. 2, 1908 — April 14, 2001 Allen Backer, 92, of Salem died Saturday. (MARION CO., OR) He was born in New Ulm,(BROWN CO.) Minn., graduated from Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1934 and began his pastoring in Adna, Wash., in 1936. His last pastoring was in Lincoln City. (LINCOLN CO., OR) He retired in 1974 and moved to Salem. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, woodworking and vegetable gardening. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, whom he married in 1934; sons, Dave of Gladstone, Tim of Salem, John of Eugene and Robert of Holden, Maine; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Salem Evangelical Church, where he was a member. Private interment will be at Restlawn Memory Gardens. Arrangements are by Restlawn Funeral Home. Contributions: church building fund.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10035 Surname: Rasmussen, Frederickson ------------------------- I am looking for information on my maternal grandfather; Jorgen Rasmussen. Jorgen immigrated to the U.S. From Denmark and located to Springfield, MN about 1880--1895. Jorgen Rasmussen and Laura Frederickson (Sundown Township) were married on March 28, 1900 in Sleepy Eye, MN. Jorgen and Laua homesteaded in North Dakota about 1900-1902.

Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10034 Surname: GREEN, SCHWETZLER, SCHOUVILLER ------------------------- Hello! Anyone researching the GREEN surname? My great grandmother, Magdlena Marie SCHWETZLER (dau of John and Johanna Rosine (Gulden) SCHWETZLER), was b. Oct 2, 1887, presumably in Brown Co. She was either raised by, or adopted by a GREEN family of Brown Co. or Renville Co. MN She married Joseph William Schouviller in Renville Co., MN Please write with any leads I might take....Jill [email protected]

This article from the "Eastmans Online Genealogy Newsletter" ... http://www.rootscomputing.com ... http://www.rootsforum.com/newsletter.htm. ... may be of interest Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] - Ellis Island Online Database Are you looking for your ancestors' immigration records? If they arrived at Ellis Island between January 1892 and December 1924, you may soon be able to find their information online. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) is developing the American Family History Immigration History Center at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. A grand opening and dedication of the facility is taking place April 17. The LDS Church and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum officially announced the History Center project on Oct. 28, 1998. However, work on the project had already been underway for five years and involved thousands of volunteers who had to sort through passenger records and ship manifests and enter them into a database. Officials had hoped to make the database available to the public late last year. However, like many such huge projects, the original projections slipped a bit. The online database is now scheduled to become available at the same time as the new center opens: April 17. According to the Ellis Island Foundation, 12,000 volunteer LDS Church members worked on the project and donated some 5.6 million hours to complete the 25 million entries in the extraction process. The church also devoted 20 full-time staff members and 35 missionaries to the project. "We're very grateful to have the expertise and generosity of the (LDS) church and its volunteers in the development of this very important and long-awaited family history resource," said Peg Zitko, director for public affairs at the foundation. The LDS Church's help "saved us considerable financial investment." This new computerized database will provide automated access to more than 22 million historic Ellis Island passenger records. However, the digitized records will only cover the period from January 1892 to December 1924 and will include only about 71 percent of the passenger arrivals during that period. Plans call for a future expansion of the project to include additional passenger years and records. The database contains information on aliens, U.S. citizens, crew members, deportees and even those who literally missed the boat. Traveler name, name of vessel, departure, ports of arrival and dates of arrival comprise the standard information to be available. Age, gender, marriage status, birthdate, place of birth and ethnicity is other information available on some entries. Do not confuse this new database with the "American Immigrant Wall of Honor" database that has been available for some time. The "American Immigrant Wall of Honor" database is a listing of all the names inscribed on the "American Immigrant Wall of Honor." The Wall honors all immigrants, not just those who were processed at Ellis Island. I even found John Alden listed in the "American Immigrant Wall of Honor" database. He arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, two hundred seventy-two years before Ellis Island first opened. This wall at Ellis Island is a memorial funded by private contributions. In order to have an ancestor's name inscribed on the "American Immigrant Wall of Honor" and also listed in the database, his or her descendants or some other person must pay $100. For a listing of a husband and wife, such as "John A. and Mary T. Smith," the charge is $200. Several "special name formats" are also available, with fees ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. All names are entered without verification of the information, so we must assume that errors exist. The new immigrants database that will go online this week is a very different offering from the "American Immigrant Wall of Honor." The new immigrants database will contain information extracted from original records, all without requirement for any payment of fees to "honor" these immigrants. The new database should contain very high quality genealogy information. Keep an eye for this new database to appear soon at: http://www.ellisisland.org

Hi Jill I don't know if this will help, but there is/was a Joseph GREEN living on a farm south of Clear Lake by Gibbon, MN, who was a brother(?) to an Uncle of mine .. Ben GREEN, married to one of my dads sisters, Helen SCHWEISS ... I don't have anything on this person, but maybe this will give you a place to look. Good luck Thanks Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected] Researching surnames: SCHWEISS .. MEIER .. SCHMITT/SCHMIDT .. STADTHER(R) .. MEHLTRATER My Genealogy Site: http://www.harbornet.com/folks/dick/SchweissFamilyHistory.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill Bennett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:12 Subject: Green Family of Brown Co., MN > Posted on: Brown Co. Mn Queries > Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mn/Brown/10034 > > Surname: GREEN, SCHWETZLER, SCHOUVILLER > ------------------------- > > Hello! Anyone researching the GREEN surname? My great grandmother, Magdlena > Marie SCHWETZLER (dau of John and Johanna Rosine (Gulden) SCHWETZLER), > was b. Oct 2, 1887, presumably in Brown Co. She was either raised by, or > adopted by a GREEN family of Brown Co. or Renville Co. MN > > She married Joseph William Schouviller in Renville Co., MN > > Please write with any leads I might take....Jill > [email protected] > > > ==== MNBROWN Mailing List ==== > To find that elusive name, go to GenServ .... http://www.genserv.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11H B > >

Wishing all a Happy Easter ... don't over-do it on the eggs & other goodies. .. 8-D Dick Schweiss (List Admin.) Brown County, MN Mail List ... [email protected]

Hello Everyone, I LOVE the the Brown County Historical Society. Darla, the research librarian was especially helpful and sent the info. fast. I found a family file and received a massive amount of information for $26.00 total. They sent me a file card with a detailed list of what was in the file so I could pick and choose what I wanted to copy.They charge .25 cents for each copy and will put as much information on a page as they can, like newspaper clippings and photos. You then can choose which photos you would like to have printed on the more expensive photo paper. The photo copies are great. I am very happy since they went online because I just found another file and can"t wait to get it. Debra