HESCH HISTORY: 1866

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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Friday, September 26, 2014

St Cloud, Minnesota, in 1866

Evidently, a small town newspaper in 1866 didn't have enough real news to fill all four pages. This teaser is from an inside page of the St Cloud Democrat of August 16, 1866. Most of the front page, four of seven columns, was business ads, with the article mentioned taking all of the sixth column.

It's interesting to read a contemporary view of the mostly unsettled St Cloud area 11 years after statehood. In context, Paul Hesch wouldn't arrive here for another 3 years, but the Otrembas already had their soddy built on the prairie near Pierz.
I captured the article in chunks knowing you wouldn't bother to read it if you had to fuss...☺

Friday, October 26, 2012

The St Cloud Journal Newspaper

....Select bits from 1866, 1874 & 1875

Remember a few pages ago, I mentioned that the St Cloud Journal was the successor to Jane Grey Swisshelm's "Visiter" newspaper? Well, here're a few interesting articles from the Journal--partly to illustrate the we-can-do-ANYTHING mood of the times--like this first article--and partly as a reminder of day to day stuff they dealt with--like the runaway horses on St Germain Street. If you're from St Cloud or the area, you'll recognize names like Herberger and Metzroth.

Some of this is just plain cool, and one is very sad.