| Summary: | After graduation, he helped his father farm for several years. Harold married Anna Hoherz on September 1, 1940 at New Salem and they moved to California. The city life didn't appeal to him so they moved back to New Salem. He worked for his father-in-law that fall. In the fall of 1941, Harold and Anna bought the old Baumgarten place. He started farming with horses. Times were rough to start. They were hailed out four years in a row, so they decided to go into milking. He milked cows and sold milk until he had an accident with a horse and could no longer do the milking. He converted to chickens and range cattle. Fall and winter months were spent hauling coal. Due to a heart attack and open heart surgery. Harold had to retire from farming and moved to New Salem in December 1981. Anna Hoherz Freise was born at New Salem on February 14, 1913. She attended school near New Salem in the Garfield #1 school. She married Harold Freise on September 1, 1940. Anna worked at Elm Crest Manor from 1974 until her retirement in 1982. Harold and Anna had three daughters: Carolyn, married to James Thiele. They have three children: David, Danny and Susan. Carolyn is a real estate agent for Northern Realty and Jim is with Soil Conservation. Charlene married Bill Wolf of Center and now lives in Mies City, Montana. They have four children: Dean, Wade, Carmen and Rita. Bill runs the Standard Oil Bulk plant there and Charlene is an interior decorator and has her own business. Arllys married Jim Sibla of Glen Ullin and they have three children: Karen, Jimmy and Jessica. Ann passed away September 28, 1982. HERMAN FREISE FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Herman Freise. Herman and Bertha Maci Freise and their two children, Mnnie and Hugo, came to the United States from Hecter, Germany in 1882. They first settled in St. Louis, Mssouri, where Mr. Freise worked as printer for "Der Friedensbote," the German church paper of Peace Church. After leaving Missouri, they spent six months in Chicago before joining the original Colony, which arrived at New Salem in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Freise were charter members of Peace Church. Mr. Freise filed on a homestead, which is part ofthe land now owned by Hubert Freise. Five more children were bom to the Freises: Annie (Mrs. Herman Rasch), the first child born in the community; Ottilda (Mrs. Ferd Matthias); Charles; Gertrude (Mrs. J.C. Beck); and Dr. P.W. Freise. Mr. Freise needed money to improve his claim; so he worked on a steamboat which operated on the Missouri River between Bismarck and Manhaven. Later he worked in a printing office at Jamestown. Mrs. Freise and the children remained on the homestead. After a few years, Mr. Freise made his farm near New Salem his permanent home. When the first German newspaper was started in New Salem, Mr. Freise spent several days a week in the print shop. Mr. Freise passed away November 11, 1912. Mrs. Freise continued to operate the farm with her children until 1916 when she moved to her new home in New Salem which is the present home of Mrs. Ted Klusmann. Mrs. Freise passed away June 10, 1932. Hugo died at the age of 13. Mnnie (Mrs. Flickenger), a member of the first graduating class of Bismarck Hospital School of Nursing, passed away at Bakersfield, California. She owned and operated Miss Freise's Maternity Hospital at Bakersfield. Annie married Herman Rasch (separate history). Ottilda was married to Richard Meyer and they farmed near New Salem. They had one daughter, Wilma. Richard died at an early age. Ottilda later married Reverend Ferd Mathias. They resided in California and spent their last years at Vallejo. Charles Freise (separate history). Gertrude married J.C. Beck (deceased) a businessman. They had one daughter, Greta Marie. Gertrude lives in Gran- geville, Idaho. Dr. Paul Freise married Alma Klusman, who had been obstetric supervisor at the Bismarck Hospital. Two children were bom to them, Robert P. and Elsa. Dr. Freise, a Bismarck physician for half a century was associated with Quain & Ramstad Clinic where he served as a partner and chairman of the board. He served as chief of staff of Bismarck Hospital from 1950 to 1962. He served as nursing instructor at Bismarck Hospital from 1950 to 1962. He served as nursing instructor at Bismarck Hospital, medical director of the Amoco Refinery, chairman of Bismarck Medical Foundation, worked with Crippled Children's Services Board, was a trustee of Trinity Lutheran Church. He was medical director of Mssouri Slope Lutheran Home at the time of his death. HUBERT R. FREISE FAMILY Hubert R. Freise was born at Sedalia, on October 23,1918. He attended grade school and first three years of high school in Judson and completed high school at Bakersfield, California. He attended Bakersfield Junior College two years and also two years at the University of California at Los Angeles where he also received his pilots license. After attending the university, Hubert worked two years at Kodiak, Alaska in Army and Navy Base construction. He returned to North Dakota in 1943. Hubert has the original homestead acreage and additional land which he named Sedalia Stock Farms. Named after the community known as Sedalia which was once located one quarter mile west of the home farmstead. Sedalia consisted of a depot, siding, section house, ice house and school. Sedalia, a maintenance station, had the longest side track in central North Dakota. Hubert married Marian Johnson of Inglewood, California 277 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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