Claus Thiessen

Birth: Apr. 28, 1837 Death: May 15, 1911

CLAUS THIESSEN, traveling agent, New Holstein. Born in Schleswig-Holstein, April 28, 1837. He came to America in 1852 with his parents, coming at once to Calumet County, and locating in town of Holstein, on a farm of 160 acres, where his parents still live. In 1859 he married, and went on to a farm of his own in the town d Eaton, where, by an accident be lost his right foot. He then changed his occupation to that of keeping hotel in Kiel, until 1869, when he took a traveling agency for a grocery house, but since travels for the Milwaukee Distillery. While in Winona, Minn., on the 4th of May, 1881, he was thrown down a flight of ten stairs, suffering a complicated fracture of the knee. He belongs to the I.O.O.F., and also the Sons of Hermann. His wife was Miss Tams, of Holstein. They have had nine children only three now living. He was one of a family of seventeen, of which there are nine living.