Obit from St. Cloud Daily Times, 8 September 1914, P. 4:
John Emmerich was born on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Emmerich, about three miles west of the city, in 1855, and would have been fifty-nine years old next Friday, September the 11th. He was one of the first white children born in Stearns [County], and he made it his home all his life. As a boy he experienced the hardships of pioneer life, retaining a vivid recollection of the Indian outbreak. Mr. Emmerich learned the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed up to within a short time before his death. . .
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Excerpts of Biography of John Emmerich, from Interview of Mary Leim Emmerich, October 22, 1936 (Stearns History Museum):
"John Emmerich, a pioneer and native son of Stearns County was born in a log cabin on his father's homestead, September 11, 1855. John was a son of Peter and Margurette Emmerich who were natives of Karish, Germany. He received his early education in the little log school house in the country, now known as District #37 in St. Cloud Township. This school he attended until he was about fourteen years old, then he worked for his father on the farm, for about six years.
On June fourth, 1875 Father Severn pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church of St. Cloud, performed the marriage of John Emmerich and Mary Leim.
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In 1875 John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich built a small house on fourteenth avenue and first street north, and in a few years they added a few rooms to their home, for as much money as they could afford. John Emmerich followed the carpenter trade, working for different carpenters at times, and he also took building contracts for himself. Mary (Leim) Emmerich recalls the big cyclone which swept through the Northwestern part of St. Cloud, in 1886. She states they just had completed a new porch on their home, and it made them feel so happy that their home was now complete, then the cyclone came along and twisted the house from its foundation and tore off the porch, and carried it across the street. This disaster cost them about $150.00 to get their home repaired again, and this amount of money was a big sum in those years, as wages were only about $1.50 per day. To John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich were born seven children: Two died in infancy, Mathias was killed in the Great Northern Yards in 1927. Catherine, wife of Jacob Rassier of St. Cloud; Barbara, widow of Peter Rassier of St. Cloud; Sophia M. wife of John Bohlsen, St. Cloud and Henry Emmerich of Monticello, Wisconsin."
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John Emmerich was born on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Emmerich, about three miles west of the city, in 1855, and would have been fifty-nine years old next Friday, September the 11th. He was one of the first white children born in Stearns [County], and he made it his home all his life. As a boy he experienced the hardships of pioneer life, retaining a vivid recollection of the Indian outbreak. Mr. Emmerich learned the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed up to within a short time before his death. . .
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Excerpts of Biography of John Emmerich, from Interview of Mary Leim Emmerich, October 22, 1936 (Stearns History Museum):
"John Emmerich, a pioneer and native son of Stearns County was born in a log cabin on his father's homestead, September 11, 1855. John was a son of Peter and Margurette Emmerich who were natives of Karish, Germany. He received his early education in the little log school house in the country, now known as District #37 in St. Cloud Township. This school he attended until he was about fourteen years old, then he worked for his father on the farm, for about six years.
On June fourth, 1875 Father Severn pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church of St. Cloud, performed the marriage of John Emmerich and Mary Leim.
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In 1875 John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich built a small house on fourteenth avenue and first street north, and in a few years they added a few rooms to their home, for as much money as they could afford. John Emmerich followed the carpenter trade, working for different carpenters at times, and he also took building contracts for himself. Mary (Leim) Emmerich recalls the big cyclone which swept through the Northwestern part of St. Cloud, in 1886. She states they just had completed a new porch on their home, and it made them feel so happy that their home was now complete, then the cyclone came along and twisted the house from its foundation and tore off the porch, and carried it across the street. This disaster cost them about $150.00 to get their home repaired again, and this amount of money was a big sum in those years, as wages were only about $1.50 per day. To John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich were born seven children: Two died in infancy, Mathias was killed in the Great Northern Yards in 1927. Catherine, wife of Jacob Rassier of St. Cloud; Barbara, widow of Peter Rassier of St. Cloud; Sophia M. wife of John Bohlsen, St. Cloud and Henry Emmerich of Monticello, Wisconsin."
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Obit from St. Cloud Daily Times, 8 September 1914, P. 4:
John Emmerich was born on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Emmerich, about three miles west of the city, in 1855, and would have been fifty-nine years old next Friday, September the 11th. He was one of the first white children born in Stearns [County], and he made it his home all his life. As a boy he experienced the hardships of pioneer life, retaining a vivid recollection of the Indian outbreak. Mr. Emmerich learned the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed up to within a short time before his death. . .
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Excerpts of Biography of John Emmerich, from Interview of Mary Leim Emmerich, October 22, 1936 (Stearns History Museum):
"John Emmerich, a pioneer and native son of Stearns County was born in a log cabin on his father's homestead, September 11, 1855. John was a son of Peter and Margurette Emmerich who were natives of Karish, Germany. He received his early education in the little log school house in the country, now known as District #37 in St. Cloud Township. This school he attended until he was about fourteen years old, then he worked for his father on the farm, for about six years.
On June fourth, 1875 Father Severn pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church of St. Cloud, performed the marriage of John Emmerich and Mary Leim.
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In 1875 John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich built a small house on fourteenth avenue and first street north, and in a few years they added a few rooms to their home, for as much money as they could afford. John Emmerich followed the carpenter trade, working for different carpenters at times, and he also took building contracts for himself. Mary (Leim) Emmerich recalls the big cyclone which swept through the Northwestern part of St. Cloud, in 1886. She states they just had completed a new porch on their home, and it made them feel so happy that their home was now complete, then the cyclone came along and twisted the house from its foundation and tore off the porch, and carried it across the street. This disaster cost them about $150.00 to get their home repaired again, and this amount of money was a big sum in those years, as wages were only about $1.50 per day. To John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich were born seven children: Two died in infancy, Mathias was killed in the Great Northern Yards in 1927. Catherine, wife of Jacob Rassier of St. Cloud; Barbara, widow of Peter Rassier of St. Cloud; Sophia M. wife of John Bohlsen, St. Cloud and Henry Emmerich of Monticello, Wisconsin."
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John Emmerich was born on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Emmerich, about three miles west of the city, in 1855, and would have been fifty-nine years old next Friday, September the 11th. He was one of the first white children born in Stearns [County], and he made it his home all his life. As a boy he experienced the hardships of pioneer life, retaining a vivid recollection of the Indian outbreak. Mr. Emmerich learned the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed up to within a short time before his death. . .
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Excerpts of Biography of John Emmerich, from Interview of Mary Leim Emmerich, October 22, 1936 (Stearns History Museum):
"John Emmerich, a pioneer and native son of Stearns County was born in a log cabin on his father's homestead, September 11, 1855. John was a son of Peter and Margurette Emmerich who were natives of Karish, Germany. He received his early education in the little log school house in the country, now known as District #37 in St. Cloud Township. This school he attended until he was about fourteen years old, then he worked for his father on the farm, for about six years.
On June fourth, 1875 Father Severn pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church of St. Cloud, performed the marriage of John Emmerich and Mary Leim.
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In 1875 John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich built a small house on fourteenth avenue and first street north, and in a few years they added a few rooms to their home, for as much money as they could afford. John Emmerich followed the carpenter trade, working for different carpenters at times, and he also took building contracts for himself. Mary (Leim) Emmerich recalls the big cyclone which swept through the Northwestern part of St. Cloud, in 1886. She states they just had completed a new porch on their home, and it made them feel so happy that their home was now complete, then the cyclone came along and twisted the house from its foundation and tore off the porch, and carried it across the street. This disaster cost them about $150.00 to get their home repaired again, and this amount of money was a big sum in those years, as wages were only about $1.50 per day. To John and Mary (Leim) Emmerich were born seven children: Two died in infancy, Mathias was killed in the Great Northern Yards in 1927. Catherine, wife of Jacob Rassier of St. Cloud; Barbara, widow of Peter Rassier of St. Cloud; Sophia M. wife of John Bohlsen, St. Cloud and Henry Emmerich of Monticello, Wisconsin."
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