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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 1061 ciation; chairman and treasurer of the legacy committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America; trustee of Trinity Lutheran Church; trustee, treasurer and member of the building committee of the city cemeteries; chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Civic League; member of the board of regents of the Red Wing Automobile Association ; member of the executive com- mittee of the Minnesota State Abstract Co. ; vice president and director of the Red Wing Cigar Manufacturing Co. and director of the Commercial Club. Mr. Hjermstad was married in January, 1889, to Sigrid Ness, by whom he has seven children : Nora C, born in 1892; Sigurd L., born in 1896; Solveig M., born in 1898; Carl F., Jr., born in 1900; Borghild S., born in 1903; Otto C. T., born in 1905 and Lars B., born in 1909. Adolph Remmler was one of those sturdy and substantial Ger- man pioneers whose sound common sense made his advice highly esteemed by all who knew him, and whose good fellowship en- deared him to scores of faithful friends. He was born May 28, 1838, in Baden, Weiler, Schwartzwald, Germany, son of Landolin and Mary (Kramer) Remmler; received his education in Baden, and came to St. Louis, Mo., when a young man, obtaining a po- sition in a wholesale house, where he remained from 1854 to 1858, when he became a traveling salesman for the same firm. He enlisted in Company A, Third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, afterward resuming his former employment. He was married April 18, 1867, to Helena Len- shaner, who died October 20, 1871, aged thirty-seven years, one month and ten days, leaving one son. Otto, born February 10, 1869. In the middle seventies, Adolph Remmler came to Red Wing and January 15, 1877, married Mrs. Christine Heising. Mr. Remmler, ably assisted by his wife, took charge of the Heising Brewery, changed its name, and made many improvements, alter- ations and additions. He served as alderman of the city and in other ways participated in many public movements for the benefit of the community, the interests of which he had deeply at heart. He belonged to the I. O. O. F. and the B. P. O. E. His death, October 29, 1908, at the age of seventy years, five months and one day, was sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mrs. Christine Remmler was born in Ritberg, Prussia, May 5, 1835, daughter of Christoph Batsher and his wife, Agnes Von Horst, her maiden name being Christine Batsher. She came to this country at the age of seventeen and one year later married "Will- iam Heising. at Cincinnati. To this union were born three chil- dren : Mrs. Frank M. Wilson, of Red Wing; Mrs. Henri DeAVitt, of Red Wing, and Dr. Albert Heising, of Menominee, Wis. After living in Cincinnati for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Heising moved to Rochester, Minn., and shortly before the Civil War came to