Bernhardt Schmidt (I1058)
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Personal Facts and Details
| Birth | 25 November 1849 Prussia Note: Date of birth comes from the Dalby Database and the obituary recorded there for Bernhardt from the Rice County Journal |
| Marriage | 25 November 1874 (Age 25) Katherine I Stehly |
| Census | 1880 (Age 31) Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, USA |
| Census | 1900 (Age 51) Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, USA |
| Occupation | Hotel Keeper |
| Death | 22 September 1903 (Age 53) Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, USA Address: At home - West Third Street
Cause of death: Stroke Note: From the Rice County Journal, 26 Sep 1903 (courtesy of the Dalby Database - www.dalbydatabase.com) AN OLD RESIDENT OF FARIBAULT, DIED TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 22, AT THREE O'CLOCK. DEATH WAS CAUSED BY PARALYSIS WITH WHICH HE WAS STRICKEN MONDAY EVENING AT TEN O'CLOCK. MR. SCHMIDT HAS SUFFERED FROM THESE STROKES BEFORE AND WAS AS A CONSEQUENCE BROKEN DOWN IN HEALTH. MONDAY EVENING HE WAS IN HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS, THE CALIFORNIA WINE HOUSE, SITUATED ON SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE, AND WAS WITH A NUMBER OF FRIENDS WHEN THE FATAL STROKE CAME UPON HIM. HE WAS TAKEN TO HIS HOME ON WEST THIRD STREET AND EVERYTHING WAS DONE TO SAVE HIS LIFE BUT IT WAS USELESS AND HE PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY TUESDAY MORNING. BERNHARDT SCHMIDT WAS BORN IN GERMANY ON THE 25TH OF NOVEMBER, 1849. WHEN YET A YOUNG MAN HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND SETTLED AT INDEPENDENCE, IA., WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL 1870, WHEN HE CAME TO MINNESOTA AND WENT INTO BUSINESS IN THIS CITY. IN 1874 HE MARRIED MISS KATE STEHLY, OF FARIBAULT, WHO SURVIVES HIM. MR. SCHMIDT HAD A LARGE CIRCLE OF WARM FRIENDS HERE. HE WAS HONORABLE IN HIS BUSI NESS DEALINGS, GENIAL AND HOSPITABLE AND ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP THE POOR OR TO SHOW AN ACT OF KINDNESS TO THE NEEDY. HE WAS ACTIVE IN WORKING FOR THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CITY AND GENEROUS IN CONTRIBUTING TO ITS SUCCESS. THOSE LEFT TO MOURN THE LOSS OF A GOOD HUSBAND AND A KIND FATHER ARE HIS WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MISS BESSIE, WHO HAS BEEN TEACHING AT BARNESVILLE, BERNARD, FREDERICK, HENRY, EDITH, ETHEL, BYRON, MARGARET AND HERBERT, ALL OF WHOM LIVE IN FARIBAULT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FREDERICK. A BROTHER, WHO LIVES IN TEXAS AND A SISTER, MRS. CHARLES BUSHKIN OF LaMARS, IA. ALSO SURVIVE THE DECEASED. |
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