Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-16
JOSEPH HAMANN
PASSES AWAY
One of Langdon's Early Pioneers
Prominent Resident for Thirty
Years, Died Thursday

Joseph Hamann, one of the most wide.
ly known of the early pioneer residents
of the vicinity of Langdon, died at half
past nine o'clock on Thursday night of
last week IN st. Michaels hospital at
Grand Forks, never having really sur.
yived the critical operation which the
doctors performed Tuesday noon with
the bare possible chance of saving his
his life.
He was taken from his home to
the Forks about month ago by DR..
Semple and placed in ST. Mlchael's hos
pital and operated upon for gall stones,
resulting in three gall stones being
removed and the patient rapidly pro-
crossing toward recovery up to about
ten days ago, when alarming symptoms
set in which eventually were proven
as resulting from rupture of the gall
bladder, necessitating the operation
which preceded his passing away on
Thursday evening
The deceased, Joseph Hamann, is
survived by widow and grown family
of four married daughters and two
sons He was born at Borgentrech.
Westphalen, Germany IN 1857 Both his
parents are dead, the death of his father
being due to cloud burst in which he
was drowned in a ravine. Mr. Hamann
was nineteen years old when he emf
grated from the old home in Germany
to America, when he located in Iowa
where he remained until the spring OF
1855, when he came west attracted by
the opening up Of free government
homesteads. He first located near
Emerson, Man Oh a rented farm, but
after putting IL the crop crossed over tc
The Dakota side and squatted on the
! as soon as it was opened for entry, Il
was in 1854, that he was married to Mis-:
Agnes Doyle, the family following this
happy union being four daughters.Annle
/ Mfs e, Stamm, Daisy, Mrs. y. klodt
/ j 8eresa. Mrs. (, honahz, Agnes, Mrs
= t}ehbeiu, the home of the first being a
Iona, while the last ramed three have
for some years resided IN Montana, Iht
two sons, Joseph an Charles, are still
: living at the old family home In addi
to the immediate family deceased is alst
[. mourneoi by Two half brothers, Louis
, kose and Anton C.odt, a half sister, Mrs
: Rohde, all Of whom reside here also twt
cousins by the name of Hamann living
!, in the southern part of Iowa,
Joseph Hamann N residence here o
= upwards thirty years had gained fo
u himself the we'll earned name of being {
man thoroughly upright in his principle:
! a devoute member of the Catholic
g church, a man that had always taken ar
'. active part in the administration of the
9 civil and educational affair af the com
n munity in which he had lived practical
i ly since the organization of the county
/. He had also taken a great interest in
y terest in politics, being one of the few
:, remaining wheel horses who over three
h decades ago put the democratic party
. we'll to the forefront on the poitica
. map of Cavalier county, but never hae
. asked political preferment for himself
# The funeral held on Sunday forenoon
from St. Alphonsus church, was one o
" the most largely attended of any il
; the history of Cavalier county and wa:
. most worthy tribute to the esteem il
which he was held by the people of tn
. community in general Deceased was tn
ranking senior charter member of tn
Langdon court of the Catholic Order o
Forester and the court members die
honor to his memory by attending the
funeral in body.