The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28

| OF PeNnSN Mania bu'Ni o'oSh' VI q
! family descended from line of Ger
man burgomasters, back to an anceS-
tor who was a soldier under GustavuS
Adolphus. DR.. Trabert is still active
in the ministry as pastor Of Salem
English Lutheran church, Minneapol-
i is, Mimi, at the age of 70. The moth
er's maiden name was Mary Elizabeth
Minnigh. Her ancestry was mixed
Pennsylvania Dutch and English
stock, the first American Minnigh
coming from Munich in 1922. DR.. Ira
bert has been active in the ministry
more than 40 years, and in 1888 went
to Minnesota as missionary for the
Lutheran synod. He established Eng
lish Lutheran congregations in Dull
nth, Fargo, Red Wing, Mimi; La
Crosse, Wis, and other cities, and Tor
wears was the only English Lutheran
minister in the Northwest. He was
back in Pennsylvania for five years,
but. except for that time, he has made
MINNEAPOLIS, the centre of his field OF
labor % years.
When Charles L. Trabert was young
the family moved to Lebanon, Penn,
where DR.. Trabert preached until it
moved to Minneapolis. Charles at
tended grade school in Lebanon, and,
after going to Minneapolis at the age
of II, attended the grade school and
went to the central high school three
years. He was a member of the first
manual training class in the Mlnnea-
polls schools, having an aptitude Tor
mechanical drawing especially, which
stood him in good stead later on. He
then went for three years to GustaVus
Adolphus college, st. Peter, Mimi, but
had to leave there to earn his way.
The summer after his last year at COL
lege he entered the employ of c.. A.
Smith for the first time. He was set
to work in the Office of c. A. Smith
& Co. in the lumber exchange, draw
ing maps and plans, and that summer
began to gain his knowledge of stand
ing timber, directing his future inter-
ests and activity.s In the fall Mr.. Ira
bert was engaged by Mr.. Smith as
tutor for his eldest son, Oscar Smith,
afterward killed in street car accl-
dent. They went to Florida and spent
the winter there, returning the next
summer to Minnesota and spending
the summer in the woods in the Pine
River district. They lived at sum-
mer farm camp for the logging crews,
went with the driving crews, and got
plenty of first-hand information and
experience with timber. That fall
they went to Newberry, S. c., where
they spent the winter, and Mr.. Trabert
was able to arrange his work so that
he took his final year of college work
at Newberry college, gaining his de-
gree of bachelor of arts in June, 1894.
That year at Newberry proved import
ant in another way, for June 25 Mr..
Trabert married Miss Harriet Abney
Wells, of Newberry, daughter of Os-
borne Wells, prominent planter. Mr..
Wells, like thousands of South Caro-
linians, entered the army, serving as
a commissary officer until the close OF
the Civil War. He is still managing
his estate, which is on the outskirts of
Newberry, partly in the city.
The young couple went direct to
Minneapolis, where Mr.. Trabert per
manently entered the employ of c. A.
Smith & Co., then a partnership OF c.
A. Smith and former Governor John
s. Pillesbury. He became identified
with the timber end of the business
at once and at the end of year be-
came private secretary to Mr.. Smith,
a position he has held II years, look
ing after Mr.. Smiths personal busi-
ness and, in. a growing degree, to the
financial side of the business. Soon
after his coming to work the c. A.
Smith Lumber Co., corporation, was
formed. Mr.. Trabert was in the en-
ploy of this company and private sec
retary to Mr.. Smith until January l.
1904. when the C. A. Smith Timber Co.
was formed with capital stock of ST.
100000 taking over all the timber
holdings of the company. Headquar-
ters for this end of the business and
for Mr.. Smith personally were moved