ERNEST REHDER, one of the substantial German citizens of Red Wing, was born in Neufeldt, Germany, June 21, 1849, son of Jurgen and Maria (Quast) Rehder, also natives of Germany.  The father was a blacksmith and shipbuilder and worked at those trades until coming to America in 1872. He first located in Featherstone township, and there resumed his trade as a blacksmith, continuing in this occupation until 1880, when he retired and came to Red Wing, where he remained for the rest of his life. He passed to his eternal reward February 18, 1893, and was followed by his wife July 1, 1894. Ernest received his education in the schools of his native land, and supplemented this with a few months' training in the American schools after arriving in Goodhue. Before coming to America he worked for a time as a blacksmith, and after landing here in 1871 worked on a farm a short time for his uncle. In 1873 he came to Red Wing, and again took up blacksmithing. The following year he started work in a general store, in which employ he continued until 1882, when he engaged in the general store business with his brother-in-law, Mr. Gerken, under the firm name of Gerken & Rehder, until 1886. In that year he started on the road as a salesman for a grocery firm, but after a year and a half again became a clerk in a store. In 1890 he engaged in business for himself, continuing this enterprise until 1896. Three years ago, in 1906, he accepted a position as superintendent of the elevator in the Goodhue County National Bank building, a position he still occupies, being known far and wide for his genial spirit and accommodating disposition. Mr. Rehder was married September 23, 1876, at Red Wing, to Maria Augustine, a native of Germany and daughter of Claus and Ingel Tobaben. Her mother died in the old country in 1860, and her father came to America in 1870, and located in Hay Creek, where he farmed until his death. To Mr. and Mrs. Rehder have been born nine children, all of whom have attained excellent standing in the community and among their associates. Crala M., born July 21, 1877, married J. W. Schmidt, of Chicago, and has one daughter, Gretchen.  Margaret J., born May 30, 1879, is a stenographer at the La Grange mills. Ernest H., born June 13, 1881, is a bookkeeper at the Union Stoneware Company. Lydia A., born March 30, 1883, married Otto P. Albrecht, of St. Paul, and has one child, Paul. Rudolf G., born September 3, 1885, is teller in the Good hue County National bank and first lieutenant of Company G, Minnesota National Guard. Frederick W., 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. Mr.  Rehder is a staunch Republican and has served the city one term as alderman. The family faith is that of the German Lutheran church.

A. F. REITER, the senior member of the firm of Reiter Bros., of Pine Island, was born in Wabasha county, Minnesota, August 24, 1873, son of Julius Reiter, a native of Germany. The parents came to this country in 1868 and located near Pottsdam, Minn., where they lived five years, later removing to Plainview, Minn, where they purchased land and engaged in general farming and stock raising. They are both living but have retired from active life. A. F. Reiter was one of twelve children : William 0., Augusta.  Julius J., Ernest H., August, Edward, Bertha, Annie, Albert, Laura, Ida and George. A. F. Reiter received his education in the public school and attended the high school, later taking a course at Darling's Business College at Rochester, Minn. After finishing his studies he returned home and worked on the farm for one year, after which he was employed as clerk in his brother's store at Rochester. After four years of clerking, he came to Pine Island and opened a general store under the firm name of Reiter and Lucas, continuing for one year, when he took in as a partner his brother Julius J., and the firm was known as Reiter Bros., under which name it is now conducted. One year later his brother E. F. became a partner. They carry a full line of dry goods, groceries, gentlemen's furnishings, boots and shoes, and have built up a large and flourishing trade in the village and surrounding country. Mr. Reiter was married in September, 1897, to Louise Rabehl, daughter of Carl Rabehl. of Rochester, Minn., a native of Germany, who came to America and located in Rochester, where he acquired land and engaged in farming, where they still reside. Mr. and Mrs. Reiter have three children: Carl, Alfred, Francis, all at home. Mr. Reiter is a Democrat in his politics. He has been a member of the village council for the past five years and holds the office of treasurer. He and his family attend the German Lutheran church.

ADOLPH REMMLER was one of those sturdy and substantial German pioneers whose sound common sense made his advice highly esteemed by all who knew him, and whose good fellowship endeared 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 position 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 Lenshaner, 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, alterations 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 William Heising at Cincinnati. To this union were born three children : Mrs. Frank M. Wilson, of Red Wing; Mrs. Henri DeWitt, 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 Red Wing. Here they purchased the old Minnesota House from John Friedrich, and remodeled the hotel into a brewery. After Mr. Heising's death, December 12, 1874, at the age of fifty-four years, his widow conducted the place for several years, showing shrewd business ability. January 15, 1877, she was married to A. Remmler. Otto Remmler, son of A. Remmler, and now manager of the brewery, was born February 10, 1869, and on May 27, 1891, married Rosie Bremer, born May 27, 1873, by whom he has one daughter, Elsie, born November 23, 1892.

OTTO REMMLER, whose efficient service as alderman from the first ward in Red Wing has done much to advance the interests of the city in the past twelve years, was born in St. Louis, Mo., February 10. 1869, son of Adolph and Helena Remmler. He attended the Catholic parochial school and the public schools of Red Wing, after which he entered St. John's College at Collegeville, Minn. Subsequently he attended the Maryland Military and Naval Academy at Oxford, Md., and completed his schooling with a commercial course. After leaving school he was employed by August Beck & Co., the B. & T. Tobacco Company and the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. He is now manager of Remmler 's Brewery, in which capacity he has demonstrated his business ability. Mr. Remmler is known for his good fellow ship and is prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of the Red Men, the Elks, the A. 0. U. W., the Sons of Herman, the Sons of Veterans, the United Commercial Travelers, the United States Brewers' Association, the Red Wing Commercial Club and the Red Wing Yacht Club. He is a Republican in politics and has served as alderman from the first ward since 1897 with the exception of 1903-4 and 1907-8. Mr. Remmler was married May 27, 1892, to Rosie C. Bremer, of St. Paul, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Remmler have one daughter, Elsie, born November 23, 1893. 

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 first in Warrick county, Indiana, where his labors as a minister of the gospel were blessed with an abundant harvest. Later he took charge of the Lutheran church at 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 Huntingburg, where he still continued, so far as his health and eyesight permitted, to follow his 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. In 1875 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and on April 23, 1876, landed for the first time in Red Wing, which was to be his home in later years. From shortly after that date until 1881 he worked in a store at Frontenac, this community, and from 1881 to 1884 he pursued a similar occupation in Crookston, Minn. Again returning to Frontenac, he 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. Consequently 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 which he called the "Teutonia." In 1903 he moved the plant to Zumbro Falls, Wabasha county, and edited the Zumbro Falls "Messenger." In the spring of 1904 he received the appointment and accepted his present position as the instructor in the printing department of the State Training School, being also the editor of the paper "The Riverside," which is issued by the boys of that institution. Mr. Risch was married December Hi, 1879, at Prontenac, to Caroline Friedrichs, a native of Germany, daughter of Christian and Sophia (Schmidt) Friedrichs, the former of whom died in 1884. The mother now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Risch. To Mr. and Mrs. Risch have been born three children: Conrad, born at Frontenac, November 7, 1880; Theodore, born at Crookston, Minn., November 28, 1882, and Julia, born at Red Wing, October 14, 1891. The family faith is that of the Lutheran church. Conrad, the oldest son, joined Company G, 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and left St.  Paul with that company May 13, 1898, for San Francisco, thence going to the Philippines. He served until mustered out in October, 1899. In 1900 he again enlisted, this time in the 23rd United States Volunteers, going again to Manila. After two more years of service he returned with the regiment to Fort Crook, Neb., until the following July, when he received an appointment as electrician, being assigned to the Bremerton (Wash.) United States navy yards, where he remained until 1908. Conrad Risch was married to Evangeline Bailey and has one daughter, Gertrude A. Theodore, the second son, is foreman in the printing office of the "Graphic Sentinel," at Lake City, Minn. He was married February 2, 1904, to Addie R. O'Neill, of Rochester, Minn. They have three children-two sons, Frederick M. and Theodore A., and one daughter, Carol Isabell.

R. J. ROBINSON, of Pine Island village, was born in Roscoe township, August 6, 1863, son of Thomas and Martha (Jackson) Robinson, natives of England, where they were married, and together they came to the United States in 1860 and engaged in farming in Roscoe township. The father died in March, 1896, and the mother the following August. R. J. Robinson was educated in the conxmon schools of the township and stayed at hoxxxe until his parents' death, when he engaged in farming for himself. He was married in 1897 to Mary B. Hayward, who was also born in Roscoe township, daughter of Gilis and Priscilla (Dunford ) Hayward, also natives of England. She was a graduate of the Pine Island high school, and taught for a number of years.  He purchased 253 acres of land in Pine Island township, where they moved in 1900. He also has thirty-eight acres in Roscoe township and a fruit farm in Kenwick, Benton county, Washington.  He carries on general farming, dairying, stock and poultry raising. They have an elegant brick home, and all the outbuildings are good, Mr. Robinson having made all the improvements on the buildings and land. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have four children: Cora B., Roy H., Ruth P., and Violet P. Their home is inside the corporate limits of the village, and Mr. Robinson is a member of the village school board and secretary of the Farmers' Creamery Company. The family attends the Episcopal church. In politics Mr. Robinson is a Republican. 

HOGEN G. ROMO, Minneola, was born in Minneola township, October 16 , 1869, son of Guilder, 0. and Anne (Trelstad) Romo, of Norway. They emigrated to America in 1865, and coming to Minneola township, purchased in section 20 eighty acres of land, which they broke and improved, following general farming until 1877. Returning to Norway, they remained until 1884, then came back to America, buying 120 acres in section 32, continuing general farming until 1896, when they retired from active life.  The father died November 29, 1903, and the mother still lives with her son. Hogen G. first took up agriculture with his father until 1896, when he came into the possession of the old homestead, which he has since continued to farm, building upon it in 1903 a new home. Mr. Romo was married February 10, 1897, to Julia J., daughter of John and Johannah Johnson, natives of Norway. They came to America, locating in Wisconsin, and in 1877, at Steele county, Minn., following agriculture for fourteen years, after which they moved to Webster, Rice county, Minnesota, where they farmed and are still residing. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Romo are: John G., born November 26, 1897 ; Alice J., born August 15, 1899 ; Harry J., born October 5, 1901, and Edwin P., born March 16, 1905. Mr. Romo is a Prohibitionist and attends the Lutheran Church. He is now school clerk of district 160 and is well thought of by all who know him.