"History of Nicollet and LeSuer counties,
Minnesota", Wiliam G. Gresham, editor-in-
cheif. Published 1916. Pages 511-512.

Frank J. Goblirsch, county commissioner of
Nicollet county, was born in Lafayette 
township on February 13, 1874.  He was the
son of John and Elizabeth Goblirsch, who 
were natives of Austria and were married in
Austria and farmed there for some time 
before they emigrated to America.  They came
to the United States in 1869 and settled on
a claim of eighty acres in section 20 of
Laffayete township.  The first labor on this
claim was the construction of a log-house
where they lived while they were preparing
their land for tilling.  They had a fine
yoke of oxen and begun to produce crops on
their land after the second year.  They
continued till the soil and to buy more land
until they had secured a tract of two hundred
and twenty acres of fine farming land.  They
continued to live on this farm, but the boys
tilled the land for them during the latter
years of their life.  They were the parents 
of ten children: Adam, who is a farmer at
Lafayette township; George, who is merchant
and farmer at Wabasso, Minnesota; John, who
is a farmer in Redwood County; Michael who
is a carpenter in Brown County; Frank J., 
who is the subject of this sketch; Charles,
who is in the wholesale hardware business in
Minneapolis; Anton, who resides on the old
homestead; Andrew, who is the cashier in a
bank in Cobden, in Brown county, and Katherine,
who works for her brother George in his store
in Wabasso.  There was only about a year's
difference in the ages of John and Elizabeth
Goblirsch, and there was only about two 
months' difference in the time of their deaths.
He died on February 28, 1909, aged about 
seventy-four, and she died on April 28, 1909
aged seventy-three.  

Data Entry Volunteer:
Paula Goblirsch
pmg@tc.umn.edu