This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Odermann, Flesch Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1288 Message Board Post: The citation for the book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H. Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page: 479 Spring Hill Township JOSEPH ODERMANN, a native of Prussia, was born in the year 1851. He emigrated to the United States in 1867, stopping for a few weeks in Wisconsin. Then came to Minnesota, first to Cold Spring City, then to Richmond for several years, and in 1870, removed to Spring Hill, and still resides in this town. He learned the blacksmith trade in the old country, and has followed it through life. He built a shop on section twenty-two, and in 1875, moved it to his present location in section twenty-one. He has been Town Clerk for the last five years, and School district Clerk since the organization of district number thirty-eight. In 1875, a fire destroyed his residence with most of it's contents, but by his energy, he soon regained his former comfortable condition. He married Miss Mary Flesch on the 10th of November, 1875, who was born in Fond-du-Lac county, Wisconsin. Their children are, Margaret, John and Barney.