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]

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]