WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884


Brandt, Philemon, miller, was born in Green county,Wisconsin, September 18, 1850. He was tenth 
 of twelve children, born to Eli and Mary Nofsinger-Brandt, natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania. 
 In 1854 the family settled in Dodge county, Minnesota, where they lived on a farm until 1871, when 
 Eli purchased the farm in West Albany where they now live. Upon settlement here Mr. Brandt 
 purchased the sawmill formerly owned by Hiram Fellows, and in 1877 the present gristmill was 
 erected by Philemon, Rufus and Mason Brandt, brothers, who are now doing a flourishing business. 
 Mason Brandt is married and living in Walsh county, Dakota, while the mill is run by Philemon and 
 Rufus, who are young men of energy and promise.