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 712 HISTORY OF GOODHUE OOUXTY line County National bank and first lieutenant of Company G, Minnesota National Guard. Frederick AY., born July 13, 1887, is a jeweler, optician and engraver. John, born July 30, 1890, is a student in the State University. Emil A., born November 26, 1891, is a student in the Red Wing high school, and Ruth H., born December 25. 1897, is a pupil in the public schools. Air. Render is a staunch Republican and has served the city one term as alderman. The family faith is that of the German Lutheran church. Herman Risch, who has charge of the printing department of the State Training School, has given general satisfaction in that position, possessing that combination of tact, discipline and genuine interest in his work which is so necessary in training boys of the type found at that institution. He was born June 20, 1851, son of Conrad F. and Caroline (Steinhof) Risch, both natives of Hanover, Germany. The father was a preacher of the Lutheran faith, and devoted his life to the cause of religion. He came to America in 1848, and located firsl in Warrick county, Indiana, where his labors as a minister of the gospel were blessed with an abundanl harvest, baler he took charge of the Lutheran church al Huntingburg, Ind.. and there preached for many years, later being assigned successively to Evansville and Kellerville, both in Indiana. In the late sixties failing eyesight forced his retirement from the active ministry, and he returned to Hunt- ingburg, where lie still continued, so far as his health and eyesigb.1 permitted, to follow bis chosen work, often acting as a supply on various occasions in various neighboring pulpits. He died in 1891 and his wife in 1894. Herman attended the schools of his neighborhood and then went to work for the Huntingburg "Signal." This was the first paper in that village, and still exists under the same name. Tn 1875 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and on April 23, 1876, landed for the firsl time in Red Wing, which was to be his home in later years. Prom shortly after that date until 1881 he worked in a store at Frontenac, this comity, and from 1881 to 1884 he pursued a similar occupation in Crookston, Minn. Again returning to Frontenac, be farmed for three years. In the spring of 1888 he had an opportunity to return to the newspaper business, his interest in' which he had not allowed to die out during his years of other work. Conse- quently he entered the office of the Red Wing "Argus," with which he remained until 1891. He then started in business for himself as editor and proprietor of a German paper whjch he called the "Teutonia." In 1903 he moved the plant to Zumbro Falls. Wabasha county, and edited the Zumbro Falls "Afes- senger. " In the spring of 1904 he received the appointment and accepted his present position as the instructor in the printing