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Came to America in 1857 to New Glarus, WI. Married Rosina Kundert and had 12 children. Joined the 9th Wisconsin Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War and served until the close of the war. 1872 moved to Wright County, IA and then to South Dakota in 1876. Became U.S. citizen 6/16/1884. His wife died in 1896. Approx. 1902 he moved to Goldfield, IA to live with his son.
Detail: Source: Memorial Biographical Record of Turner, Lincoln, Union Clay Counties, SD, Pub. 1897 by Geo. A. Ogle Co., Chicago, held by the Canton, South Dakota Public Library. Actual text: From: Memorial and Biographical Record of Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties SDMATHIAS DUERST. This gentleman is one of the substantial and well-to-do farmers of Pleasant township, Lincoln county, and is deserving of great credit for the manner in which he has spent his mature years, working so industriously and honestly that he has secured quite a fortune. He is of Swiss birth and parentage, and inherits those sterling traits which characterize his countrymen the world over. The gentleman to who these lines refer first opened his eyes to the light November 27, 1833, and in picturesque Switzerland grew to manhood, receiving a good common-school education. He was raised a farmer, his father having been engaged in that occupation, and when he had attained his majority he struck out for himself and emigrated to the new world in 1854. His first location in the land of the free was in Green county, Wis., where he learned the trade of tinsmith and later settled on a farm. During his residence in the Badger stare the Civil war broke out, and Mr. Duerst was one of the first to enlist in the defense of the national life. He was mustered into company K, Ninth Wisconsin regiment, infantry, as a private, was promoted to corporal, and ordered first to Milwaukee and thence to Leaveworth, Kans., where the regiment joined Col. Soloman’s command and operated in Missouri. Our subject served until the close of hostilities in various parts of Missouri and Arkansas with his company, having re-enlisted at Little Rock, Ark., after his first term expired, and was mustered out and discharged in August, 1865, as sergeant, having been promoted to the rank for meritorious service.After the war Mr. Duerst returned to Wisconsin from where he later on removed to and settled in Wright county, Iowa, an a rented farm. This he operated for three years, and then, in 1875, came to Lincoln county, Dak. Ter., and located on his present estate. He has been a hardworking, industrious man and has 210 acres of his farm of 320, under good cultivation. He first constructed a sod shanty, in which to house himself and family, and made this primitive place of abode his home for four or five years, when he built his present residence. All that he now has is the result of his own industry, he possessed very little means when he arrived in the territory, but by that indomitable will, which has been a potent factor in his prosperity, and an inexhaustible fund of energy, he has succeeded admirably. He has in his career seen some pretty hard times, and was unfortunate enough to lose the result of his labor several years in succession by grasshoppers, hail, etc. Those times have passed, however, and he is now considered one of the prominent and substantial citizens of the community. His farm, on which he has made many fine improvements, is easily one of the best tilled, most economically arranged, and methodically managed estate in the county, and on it is carried on a general agricultural business.The lady who presided over the household affairs of our subject for over forty years, and who shared alike with her husband the hardships and privations through which he passed, became his wife in 1855. She bore the maiden name of Miss Rosina Kundert, and was a native of the same province in Switzerland from whence her husband came, she having come to America in 1853. Twelve children were born to this congenial couple, but seven only survive, viz: Nicholas married Miss Sadie Griffith, lives in Wright county, Iowa, and has two children; Mary is the wife of Mathias Schmid, Jr., and the mother of four children; Dora is the wife of Will Milligan, of Presho county, S. Dak., and has two children; Abe married Miss Cora Pierce and lives with his wife and two children on the homestead; Ella is the wife of Sam Hammerly, and the mother of five children; Fannie is the wife of James Armour, of Yankton, S. Dak., and the mother of three children; and Henry. Of the deceased children, Mathias, Sara and Rosa had grown to maturity when their deaths occurred. All the children have had good common-school education, and are among the best citizens in the various places where they make their homes. Mrs. Duerst passed to the world beyond in September, 1896. She was a true Christian and belonged to the Evangelical church. Mr. Duerst holds membership in the Lutheran. Our subject is a Republican in politics of the straightest type. He has been a member of the school board and has served as road overseer. Socially he belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, and has also been a member of the I.O.O.F. His son Abe is now a member of the latter order at Beresford, also Nicholas, and the former has held office therein. From: History of Wright County, Iowa Nicholas C. Duerst was born in the state of Wisconsin July 5, 1856, the son of Mathias and Rosena (Kundort) Duerst, who were natives of Switzerland, but who were married in Wisconsin. The father was a factory worker in his native land, where he worked until twenty years of age, when he came to this country, reaching New York in 1854, and going to Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm for a number of years. He purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in that state, where he remained until the year of 1861, and then, at the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisted in the Ninth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which command he did not see active service in battle but was able to appreciate the hardships of service as the result of contracting a fever, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. With his regiment Mathias Duerst served until 1865, when he was mustered out. Mathias Duerst then returned to Wisconsin and worked on his farm until the year 1872, at that time leaving and coming to Wright County. On arriving in Boone township he rented a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where he lived for a term of four years, and then took up a homestead in South Dakota, at which place he lived for the next twenty years, returning then for a life of retirement with his son, his wife having died during the year 1898. To Mathias and Rosena Duerst were born twelve children: Nicholas C., Sarah, Mary, Rosa (deceased), Rosa, Dora, Abraham, Ella, Mathias, Fannie, Katy and Henry.
1833 - 1917 (83 Jahre)
