Nicollet and LeSueur Counties Volume II (biographies) William Gresham 1916 Otto Wendelschafer, prosperous farmer, was born on February 27, 1886, and is the son of Adam and Mary (Dietz) Wendelschafer, both of whom were born in Germany. The parents were married after coming to the United States. Otto Wendelschafer was educated in the local schools of his township, after which he assisted his father on the farm and began to work for himself. When but a small lad he left the farm that he now owns and which is his home, and lived with his father on the farm in Nicollet county for twenty years. In 1909 he came back to the farm of his birth, where he now owns one hundred and ninety- four acres of land. The house was here when he returned, but a most substantial barn and other outbuildings have been erected. In 1910 Otto Wendelschafer was united in marriage to Nellie Haney, the daughter of Samuel E. Haney and wife, a biographical sketch of whom is presented on another page of this volume. Mr. Wendelschafer and wife are active and influential members of the German Lutheran church at St. Peter. (pages 285-286)