WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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		    "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY MINNESOTA"
                               COMPILED BY
                         FRANKLYN CURTISS-WEDGE
                                AND OTHERS

                                ILLUSTRATED

                               WINONA, MINN.
                          H. C. COOPER, JR., & CO.
                                   1920



 Anding, Moritz (page 658), one of the hardy pioneers of Wabasha County, now deceased, who developed 
 a farm in Gillford Township, was a native of Germany, where he learned and followed the trade of copper. 
 He was there married to Dorothy Clemenhagen, and continued his residence in his native land until 1853, 
 when he came with his family to America, locating in Iowa County, Wis., not far from the village of 
 Highland. The nearest place worth calling a market was Galena, Ill., 50 miles distant, whence with an ox 
 team he hauled his farm products and brought back necessary supplies. When he arrived at Highland from 
 Germany he had practically no money. The trip had been a long one, lasting nearly three months, as they had 
 crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and as there was no railroad from Madison, Wis., to Highland, they 
 hired a team to transport them and their luggage. The hire of this wagon and team cost $25, and the driver 
 refused to reload their things until he had been paid. This Mr. Anding was unable to do, and the neighbors, 
 who proved very kind, came to his assistance. His family then numbered seven people, and to support them 
 he worked at whatever he could find to do, laying stone, plastering, or anything else. In the spring of 1866 he 
 came with them to Wabasha County, Minn., having previously bought some wild land in section 13 Gillford 
 Township, and his son William having come the previous fall and being already on the ground. William in the 
 meanwhile had been splitting rails and fencing the farm. With his son's assistance Mr. Anding grubbed and 
 cleared the land and built a frame house, hauling the lumber from Read's Landing with horses, as he had 
 bought two horse teams from Wisconsin. On this farm Mr. Anding lived seven years, at the end of which 
 time he sold 80 acres of it to his son William, and the rest to a neighbor, and moved with his wife to Read's 
 Landing. There Mrs. Anding died in the fall of 1878, and Mr. Anding subsequently married a lady of 
 Minneapolis, where he took up his residence and died in August, 1897. By his first wife, Dorothy, he had 
 eight children: Mary, now the widow of Fred Stahman, formerly of Lake Township, Wabasha County; 
 Georgiana, who married Charles Hornbogen, a carpenter of Read's Landing; Frederick, deceased; William, 
 of Gillford Township; Mary, the widow of Capt. Henry Slocum of Winona; Charles, a resident of Winona; 
 Herman, an engineer who died at Pierre, S.D., where his family is still living; and Lizette, wife of Edwin 
 Porter of St. Paul. Mr. Anding was a hard worker and a useful man in his township, ready to lend a hand to 
 any project for the public welfare. He donated and hauled the lumber for the first schoolhouse, which he also 
 built, with the assistance of Sam McCullom. His son William, then only a boy, drove the team which hauled 
 the first load of lumber for the schoolhouse. Mr. Anding also served as first treasurer of the school district, 
 and that office has always been held by some member of the family, his grandson, William H., being now the 
 incumbent.