Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Broncho Pneumonia, Endarteritis Obliterans
• Military: Union Soldier; Civil War, Indian Wars; Address:
  Civil War, Indian Wars
• Misc: 25 Aug 1862, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States
• Misc: 1913; news article
• Obit: Apr 1923

Notes:

Albert Freitag was born August 28, 1844 in Prussia. In 1861 the family immigrated to Nicollet, Minnesota. From October, 1862 to November, 1863, he served in Company E, First Minnesota cavalry; re-enlisted January, 1864, in First Minnesota, artillery, Company F. was discharged at Nashville. With the exception of two years in Mankato and two years in Chicago, he has lived since 1867 at his farm in Nicollet. Minnie Meyer who was married to him in 1866, died in 1875, leaving him four children. Married Bertha Metzke in 1879; they have two living children.
From History of Minnesota Valley

Misc:
46th Congress 2d Session House of Representatives
Report No. 1567

Albert Freitag.
June 4, 1880-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Mr. Barber, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany bill H.R. 1151.]

The committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1151) for the relief of Albert Freitag, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report:

That the claimant, Albert Freitag, is a resident of Nicollet, Nicollet County, State of Minnesota, and resided there during the year 1862.

The testimony of Mr. Freitag shows that on the 25th day of August, 1862, he was on his way to Saint Peter, in said Nicollet County; that at the time he owned and was driving a span of gray horses, three years old; that said span of horses were in good condition; that while driving he was met by Capt. E. St. Julien Cox, who had command of a company, marching to the relief of New Ulm, which was at that time besieged by hostile Indians of the Sioux Nation or tribe. Captain Cox as an officer iin command of State forces, took from the claimant his team, and pressed the same into service of the volunteers he was then leading against the Indians; that Cox gave claimant a voucher or certificate, setting forth that his team had been taken for the use of the volunteers in the defense of New Ulm. In two weeks from the time said team was taken, claimant found them at Saint Peter, reduced in flesh, saddle-galled, and so poor that they could not be used until sometime in the winter; that in consequence thereof he was compelled to hire a team to do his fall plowing. The claimant testifies that the voucher given him by Captain Cox was burned up with his father's house, and for a long time he thought he could not collect any compensation because he had lost the voucher. He has, however, furnished a certificate from Captain Cox, who is now judge of the ninth judicial district of Minnesota, certifying that he took the horses belonging to Mr. Freitag for the use of the volunteers he was in command of. The claimant has also produced a certificate from ten of his neighbors who were well acquainted with him at the time the horses were taken, and who state they believe the facts to be true as stated, and the use of the property with the amount claimed.

Your committee are of the the opinion that the facts as stated by the claimant are true, and that he is entitled to relief in the sum of $65. They therefore recommend that the bill be amended by inserting said amount and put upon its passage.

Misc:
Published in 1913

Fifty-one years ago during the Indian uprising, state troops of Minnesota confiscated a team of horses from Albert Freitag, a resident of Nicollet county. Freitag sought to obtain payment for the team from congress, but the claim was disallowed.

Yesterday Albert Pfaender of new Ulm introduced a bill in the house appropriate $250 for reimbursing Freitag for the team.

Obit:
The funeral of the late Albert O. Freitag of this village, of whose demise mention was made in these columns last week, was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. E. H. Sans of New Ulm at the local Friedens church, and the remains were laid to rest in the church cemetery north of Nicollet. Mr. Freitag has been ailing for about two years. His death occurred on Wednesday April 11 at the Union hospital, New Ulm, where he had been receiving medical attention for two weeks on account of a gangrenous affliction of his right foot.

Deceased was a native of Repsin, Prussia, German, where he was born August 28, 1844. In 1861 he came to America with his parents, the late Carl and Henrietta Freitag, and the family located on a farm south of Nicollet.He was united in marriage to Wilhelmine Meyer in 1866, and to this union four children were born, there of who survive. They are: A. C. Freitag and Paul Freitag of Max, N.D., and Mrs. Chas. Vogtel of New Ulm. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Freitag was wedded for a second time in 1875, this time to Miss Bertha Netzke, his surviving widow. Of the four children born to the second marriage, the two remaining being Emil Freitag, Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. Aug. E. Ott, Stutler, Alberta, Canada. He also leaves 17 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren to mourn his demise, as well as one brother, August Freitag, Sr., of Nicollet township. Some twenty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Freitag moved to Max, N. D. where they resided until returning to this village three years ago.Mr Freitag saw many hardships in the pioneer days and was a veteran of the Civil and Indian wars. He was accorded a military funeral. May the old soldier rest in peace.

unknown paper. Newspaper in possession of Ellen Rohr

Albert married MEYER, Wilhelmine in 1866. Wilhelmine was born on 7 Aug 1847; died on 11 Jan 1875; was buried in Nicollet, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married NETZKE, Bertha on 20 May 1879 in Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States. Bertha was born in 1858; died on 29 Mar 1942 in Nicollet, Minnesota, United States; was buried in Nicollet, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married VOGTEL, Charles on 18 Dec 1890. Charles (son of VOGTEL, Carl and WORCH, Amalie) was born on 4 May 1867 in Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany; died on 8 Nov 1920 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, United States
• Misc: Biography

Notes:

Misc:
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.

Paul married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: LAUGHRIDGE, Bessie. Bessie was born about 1890; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Misc: Max, McLean, North Dakota, United States
• Education: Mar 1917
• Occupation: 1922, Waupaca, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States; lawyer
• Occupation: Jul 1922, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States; admited to the bar

Notes:

Misc:
Max History (town of Max)

The townsite of Max, ND was originally platted according to a certificate filed by J.G. Sheldrick, Surveyor, on August 8, 1906. Prior to this, people heard rumor that the Soo Line was building north of Garrison by Elbow Lake for the prupose of using water for their steam engines. Businesses were setup on the rolling prairies of an anticipated townsite at this location. The buildings and shacks were arranged in more or less of a haphazard manner due to the fact they could not be permanently placed until they had purchased a lot.

The name of Max was given to this new town after some controversy. It was, at one time, to be named Junction or Junction City, where the Soo Line tracks from the South branched to the East and West. Max was the first name of the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Freitag. Paul Freitag was the first Postmaster and the frist post office to serve this community was on his farm. As the story goes, when the people would go over to the Freitag Post Office to get their mail, Max, a little shaver at the time, would ask the people if they came to "his' post office to get their mail. The people got in the habit of calling it Max's Post Office, and that is the name that stuck when it was moved two miles west to the new townsite.

http://www.maxnd.com/history.html

Education:
Siegel Cup Goes To Senior Class

Finals in declamation contest at high school are interesting

Member of 1917 and freshman to represent school at Elmore.

The finals in the High School Declamation Contest were held Wednesday and Thursday evening at the Auditorium.

This was the first year of the contests and great interest was shown by the students of the local High School, in the innovation; students and faculty members alike are delighted over the result obatined (sic). Twenty-three girls and sixteen boys entered in the contest.

Win Siegel Trophy
Max Freitag, a senior, won first place in the contest for the boys, and Thelma Rinke, a freshman, was awarded first in the girls' contest. This not only decides the winners for the Siegel trophy, but entitles Mr. Freitag and Miss Rinke to represent the New Ulm school at the District Declamation Contest to be held at Elmore, Minn., March 16.

Max married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]