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Charles Kostboth
Charles Kostboth (1853-1923) was a legislator in the 3rd South Dakota House of Representatives session from 1893 to 1894. He represented McCook County, South Dakota, then in the South Dakota House of Representatives, District 11, 11th District. Charles was born to Wilhelm Kostboth and Maria Sophia Dorothea Muller in Prussia, Germany. The 12-year-old Kostboth German Americans, came to the United States from Germany with his parents in April 1865, through the port of New York City. They lived on a farm near McGregor, Iowa. Charles married Catherine Metzger on September 27, 1877, near her home in Clayton Center, Iowa. They moved to South Dakota two years later, claiming a homestead five miles northwest of Canistota, South Dakota, Canistota, on the west half of section 17. Charles's parents also moved to Canistota, and his father died at Charles's farmhouse in 1900. The couple lived as pioneers on the sparse Dakota prairie where, as Charles' obituary notes, "even claim shanties were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and ''de jure'' by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. In 1871, Prussian Minister-President Otto von Bismarck united most German principalities into the German Empire under his leadership, although this was considered to be a "Lesser Germany" because Austria and Switzerland were not included. In November 1918, the monarchies were abolished and the nobility lost its political power during the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
