New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-17

privations and in the later years of
his life he has never shirked the re-
sponsibilities his fellow citizens have
thrust upon him. During his tenure
of Office he weathered crisis after crisis
and Of him it may be said that he re-
ligiously discharged his duties as he
saw them, ever preserving strict i'm
partially and always weighing the
questions presented to him with calm
and candid Judgment and without the
slightest bias.
Dr. Carl Weschcke, New Ulm's pio-
neer physician and druggist, was born
in Limlinje rod, Prussia, March 4, 1881,
and is now nearly 70 years of age.
His educational career began at home
at the age of FIVE; he completing his
elementary course when thirteen years
old and entering the gymnasium at
Nordhausen. Eight years sent him
forth from that institution and he then
launched upon his medical course at
the University of Berlin, where he
spent eighteen months. His studies
were next pursued at the University Of
GreitsWa]d. where he remained for two
and a half years, graduating in the
spring of 1856 at the age Of IS years.
Fresh from his alma mater, the Prus-
sian army attracted the young physi-
clan and he sought service with the
Kaiser. He was assigned to the Thir-
ty-second Infantry, regulars, and
stayed with the command year. Then
followed two years Of private practice
in the country of his birth, after which
DR.. Weschcke decided to cast his lot
, in America; then. as now, hailed as
, the land of promise.
, In 1860 he embarked for New York
, and he relates that upon reaching St
Paul he was advised to locate in the
5 German colony at New Ulm, with the
/ understanding that he was to return
| to St. Paul when he should have be-
come more conversant with the Eng
i lish language. The first part of thu
l program he carried out to the letter
Q reaching New Ulm, which he found tt
S be scattering village with a popula
ton Of scant 500, on May II, of tina
T year: but his return to st. Paul wa
never made, for as his Acquaintance
with New Ulm and it's people ripenet
d he could not bring himself to entirel,
Il sever the relation.
+ from the time of his arrival unit
. 1867 he was the only physician in tn
: town and two years after he came b
passed through the horrors of til
Sioux Indian massacre. In August
1862, Little Grow and his savage
made their attack and the doctors ex
periences during the six days of bat
tie that followed were of characte
calculated to leave the most vivid i'm
pressions. In the parlors of the 81
Dakota House, which had been con
verified into temporary hospital, h
worked increasingly succoring tn
wounded; putting aside thoughts {
his own bodily fatigue and exhaustio
that he might alleviate their suffer
ings. When the St. Peter and L
Sueur companies arrived with othe
surgeons he was relieved somewha
bat during the entire siege was alway
to be found at his post of duty.
After the repulse of the Indians b
was appointed as a surgeon in th
United States army and until late
1868 cared for the sick among the so
diers stationed here and at adjacer
outposts. In 1868 the doctor went
San Francisco but returned to Mime
sofa in October of that year. Viii
absent he contracted fever and TIL
compelled him to relinquish the sple1