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VORWALDT, HENRY A., attorney at law and Notary Public, St. Paul; son of August Vorwaldt, who was born in Munster, Prussia, in 1809; a saddler by trade. He married Margaretha Trelling, who was born in Vormaln, Prussia, in 1820; the mother died in 1847, the father in 1871, leaving a family of four children — Henry A., the eldest, born in Munster, Prussia, in February, 1830; after receiving a, liberal education, in 1850, emigrated to America, first stopping at Scranton, Penn., where he was time-keeper for the Union Coal Co.; afterward engaged as clerk in a leather-factory, at Millford, Penn., where he remained two years, and in 1854, under Gen. J. C. Fremont, he visited Nebraska, Kansas and Dakota Territories, on a surveying expedition, in which he was engaged until 1858; thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in teaching, and, in the spring of 1860, to Lee Co., and to what is now St. Paul, where he was instrumental in establishing a post office, and had the honor of giving the place its name; he kept the post office for four and one-half years, when he took up his present profession. In February, 1860, he married Mary E. Hoalsher, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in April, 1832, and emigrated to America in 1852; they have two children, the eldest, August F., born the 21st of February, 1867, and Margaretha D., in November, 1869. Democratic in politics, and members of the Catholic Church.