New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-06-20

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served as they are served in private
homes and the boarder is at liberty to
help himself to all Re wants. For this
reason the Dakota house has become
known to all of the travelling public
whose business has ever brought them
to this city.
Still with all the responsibility that
the hotel threw upon her Mrs. Setter
found time to care for a large family
of children. ten of whom are living,
three are dead. Those who survive
her have found their places in the BUSH
ness world and have become citizens
OF which any place may be proud.
The daughters have married men of
standing and purpose and all have
pleasant homes. The husband and
father died in 1887. The children are,
A. G., Otto and Fred Of this city;
Albert and Oscar of Spokane, and w.
r. of Omaha: Mrs. f. w. Johnson
and Mrs. w. G. Alvin Of this city,
Mrs. G. II. Helmes, st. Paul, Mrs. F.
Spoerhase, Roanoke, Va. Beside her
children there remains of the family
from which Mrs. Setter came two
brothers, Xavier Erd of Atlanta, G..
and VIM. Erd of Mankato, both are
very old men. All of the children and
the brother from Mankato will be
present at the funeral and Mrs. Louis
Bernhard of Strasburg, ILL.,, a sister
in-law, will be here; Gov. Johnson
and wife will also attend the funeral.
The parents of Mrs. Setter were Mr..
and Mrs. Erd who built the building
which is now the property of Wd. Eib-
ner, in the cellar of which so many
women and children assembled during
the battle of New Ulm prepared to
blow themselves up with gun powder
in case the Indians overran the town.
Happily the Indians were repulsed and
the people of the city escaped. With
those who fed was Mrs. Setter and
her family, who went to St. Paul
where they remained until affairs were
secure in this city when they returned
to resume their place in the business
and social part of the city.
What tribute can mortal pay to the
memory of one whose whole life
breathes forth the fragrance of that
blossom Of fadeless beauty, charity,
the greatest of the three virtues. What
words of praise will be so eloquent as
the pages of the life history of one
who had no thoughts of others save
those OF kindness and gentleness, what
eulogy more touching than the I'M
known deeds of kindness that through
the years of her life Mrs. Setter has
scattered among those unfortunate
poor whose condition knocked with
availing purpose at the portals of her
heart.
Men have done much with ak and
pillow and rifle shot to open the way
for the settlement of new countries and
dying have had their names enrolled
upon the scrolls of fame, but among
all of the heroes for whom the people
of this state have claimed honor, either
by reason of their deeds or their lives
there are none to whose memory tribute
is more justly due than to the memory
of Mrs. Setter.
When hunger knocked at the door
of her home and want stalked through
the community she was brave and that
hope which shined ever in the purpose
of her life gave courage to others;
when danger threatened her home and
the homes of all of her friends she was
| courageous and with her own hands
assisted to repel that foe which has
ever been the dread of the pioneer, the
Indian of the plains.
| Surrounded with a large family of
growing children, to whose training
she gave her constant care, she still
found time for the cultivation of those
generous principles which as the sun
of her life sets are like the golden rays
coming up out of the great and I'M
known beyond reach to untold heights
and tinge the clouds of earthly care
with a beauty so perfect that we won
der at it's excellence.
Endued with those perfect graces OF
character that shine only in the lives
of few of the human race with which
we come in contact, she found her
i pleasure in those unobtrusive affec-
lions that endeared her to- the hearts
of so many and form those certain
jewels that must ever shine inthe crown
Of true womanhood.
Louis Ambrosch, the violinist ar
rived in the city last week from Spo-
i kane, where he has spent the winter