"Moritz Anding, one of the hardy pioneers of Wabasha County, now deceased, who developed a farm in Gillford Township, was a native of Germany, where he learned and followed the trade of cooper. He was there married to Dorothy Clemenhagen, and continued his residence in his native land until 1853, when he came with his family to America, locating in Iowa County, Wis., not far from the village of Highland. The nearest place worth calling a market was Galena, Ill., 50 miles distant, whence with an ox team he hauled his farm products and brought back necessary supplies ... His family then numbered seven people, and to support them he worked at whatever he could find to do, laying stone, plastering, or anything else. In the spring of 1866 he came with them to Wabasha County, Minn., having previously bought some wild land in section 13 Gillford Township, and his son William having come the previous fall and being already on the ground. William in the meanwhile had been splitting rails and fencing the farm. With this son's assistance Mr. Anding grubbed and cleared the land and built a farm house, hauling the lumber from Read's Landing with horses, as he had brought two horse teams from Wisconsin. On this farm Mr. Anding lived seven years, at the end of which time he sold 80 acres of it to his son William, and the rest to a neighbor, and moved with his wife to Read's Landing. There Mrs. Anding died in the fall of 1878, and Mr. Anding subsequently married a lady of Minneapolis, where he took up his residence and died in August 1897. By his first wife Dorothy, he had eight children: Mary, now the widow of Fred Stahman, formerly of Lake Township, Wabasha County; Georgiana, who married Charles Hornbaghen, a carpenter of Reads Landing; Frederick, deceased; William, of Gillford Township; Mary, the widow of Capt. Henry Slocum of Winona; Charles, a resident of Winona; Herman, an engineer who died at Pierre, S. D., where his family is still living; and Lizette, wife of Edwin Porter of St. Paul ..." [Franklin Curtiss-Wedge, Compiler, History of Wabasha County, Minnesota (H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Company, Winona, Minnesota, 1920, pp. 658-659)]