HESCH HISTORY: Buckman, Incorporated

This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Buckman, Incorporated

Looking at the names on the 1902 plat map of Buckman, and comparing them to names on the incorporation roster in 1903, I realized 1) how free and loose they were with spelling those names, and 2) how familiar most of the names still are.