- Paul Freitag
While the question of nationality is one that is rapidly becoming of minor importance in this country, owing to the liberal laws and equal opportunity offered to anyone of honest intent and industrious habit, yet the uniformity with with those of Germany birth or descent make good, as the saying is, in the United States, has for long been a noticeable fact, universally recognized by sociologists and students of racial distinctions. "Blood will tell" is a saying that has generally been used in connection with the idea that aristocratic birth endows the subject with superior qualities and, as a consequence, has not been accepted favorably in this republican country. Applied, however, to nations, regardless of doubt ut that there are certain broad mental, physical and moral characteristics which must be recognized as establishing well marked lines between people of different racial extraction. Paul Freitag, of Max, possessed at birth the undoubted advantage of good, old German parentage, and his own life history still further compels the belief that after all there is a great deal in the force of heredity in shaping our individual fortunes in life's battles.
Paul Freitag was born in Nicollet, Minn., on July 16, 1873. His father, Albert Freitag, was a native of Germany and came to this country in time to participate in the Civil war, and is still living on a farm near Max. His mother was also of German birth but died in Minnesota before the family moved to North Dakota. The grand parents came to Minnesota in 1860.
Paul's education was acquired in the common schools of New Ulm, Minn., the German city of that state, and his boyhood and early manhood were spent on a farm in the vicinity of that city. In 1894, he moved to Clarksville, Iowa, where he remained until 1901, in which year he took up a homestead near the present town of Max in North Dakota. In Iowa he was engaged in the mercantile business as agent for the Plano Harvester Company as traveling salesman. At Max he engaged in the general merchandise business under the name of Freitag & Freitag, and has already built up a lucrative and substantial connection.
In the fall of 1898, he married Miss Lenora Wallath, of Clarksville, Iowa, and two children have been born to them, Max, age 10 years, after whom the town of Max was named, and Howard, age 2 years.
Mr. Freitag is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Lutheran by religion.
He is the owner of 320 acres near Max, which is yearly increasing in value. The postoffice is located in the store building of the firm, which was the first to engage in the general merchandise business in Max, and Mr. Freitag was the first postmaster when the postofice was on his homestead. He still holds the office.
Mr. Freitag is personally an affable and popular man, an exemplary citizen, and a business man of shrewdness and ability.
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Jindra and Chaloupka Families
1873 - Yes, date unknown
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