New Ulm review., 1922-08-02

them where the facts IN connection
with New Uln's part in the Indian
outbreak may be refreshed for the
benefit Of the younger generation
here now and for generations to come.
First Settlers in 1854.
The first party of immigrants who
arrived at New Ulm for the purpose
of sett ement on October 8, 1854 con-
sisted of about thirty men, among
whom were M. Wall, Walser, the two
Henle nbroth Dambaeh, the two
brothers Haeberle, Ludwig Meyer,
w. Winkelmann, Palmer, Kleinknecht,
the two Mack brothers, Z. Hermann
and wife, Kraemer, Schwarz, Weiss,
Elise Finke, afterward married to A..
Henle, julius with wife and child.
Thiele, Boeringen, Wiedmann, Massa-
pust, Zettel with wife and child, ].
Brandt, Koch and Drexler. Many Of
these daring men and women were
m assacred in the Sioux outbreak in the
summer and autumn of 1862.
Moved North For Winter.
These settlers did not tay at New
Ulm very long but moved north to
within ten miles of Ft. Ridgely where
theyoccupied a deserted Indian village.
In the dead of winter, the Indians
came back and claimed their huts and
the white settlers had to move out
setting up other quarters nearer tn,
home OF Joseph La Framboise, e
French Canadian trader who had
married an Indian squaw and whose
house was located four miles from Ft.
Ridgely. If it had not been Tor La
Framboise, these first settlers would
probably have starved or frozen to
death, as most cf them were imml-
grants from Europe, having come here
from Chicago, and were neither ac-
ouainted with the hardships Of frontier
life in general nor with the rigor OF a
Minnesota climate. Amongst the
serious trials of that first winter was
the burning of their cabin, the straw
and lark roof catching fire from the
overheated pipe of one OF the three
stoves they had going on the fifteenth
Of Feb uary, very cold day. In the
meantime, the Indians had been
driven out of their village by small
pox epidemic, leaving one corpse be-
hind to appease the Great Spirit. The
white settlers had no other place to go
but back to the deserted tepees OF the
Indians who had even taken away the
coverings, hides and robes OF the
tepees. La Framboise gave them
some straw to cover one of the huts
with and in which stove was laced.
Here, then, they spent the rest OF the
winter which at times was so CT Id that
their food froze on their plates While
they tried to eat neal.
First Ho es in 1855
The first houses in New Ulm were
built in 1855 by Adam Gehnke, A.
Dederich, Ludwig Ensderle, Paul
Hitz, Ludwig Meyer, H. Meierding
and C.. Staus. The first settlers were
largely Swa bians, and in remem brance
Of the city of Ulm, they named their
frontier town "New Ulm.
| % Shanties In 1856
In 1856, a party from Cincinnati,
10 ned the first settlers at New Ulm,
which, upon the arrival OF the new
settlers, consisted Of twenty three
Eshanties scattered over stretch OF
three miles. The newcomers were
Adolph Setter, John c. Toberer, y
Gerstenhauer, William Hummel, Geo
Guettich, George Fen, Henry Knietf,
Henry Haupt, Henry Holman and
William Petermann, under the leader.
ship OF William Pfsender. These
people came by steamer from Gin.
cinnati to St. Paul and made the rest
of the trip to New Ulm in wagons
August Schell and few others hao
started out ahead O. those nanec
above.
First Store In 1856
In the autumn Ct 1856, store wa:
started by the company who sent these
settlers here, in order to provide pro
!. visions for the settlers. 1t stood where
later the Pennsylvania House wa
Located and where is now Robt. Fesen
maier's hardware store on Minnesot;
street, It was a tWo-story building bulltd
of rough lumber, ten by thirty feet
William Pfaender was placed in charg
as New Ulm's first merchant. Every
thing was sold to the settlers at actua
cost.
1889 Population In 1860
Sixty or seventy more people az
rived from Cincinnati the followin
year which Cal ed for more stores an