Paul T. Hinderer

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: From 1920 Census, 16 Jan 1885, New York, New York. From CastleGarden.Org search.

Name: Paul Hinderer
Occupation: Pastor
Age: 22
Sex: M
Arrived: 16 Jan 1885
Ship: Bohemia
Origin (Port): Hamburg
Origin (Country): Germany
Origin (Providence): Wurtemberg
Origin (Town): Iberkingen

• Occupation: St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1886, Nodine, Minnesota. Worship services were held in a one-room schoolhouse in Nodine. It is still located on the property of Roy and Arlene Schroeder. In 1886, Pastor Koehler accepted a call to Effington, Minnesota.
The next pastor called to serve St. John's was Rev. Paul Hinderer. He soon realized that he could no longer serve all three congregations, and resigned from Brownsville. He moved to the Goodhue area in 1890.
From http://stjohnsnodine.org

• Occupation: Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1886-1890, Brownsville, Minnesota. The Little Brown Chuch in the Vale

There's a church in the valley by the wildwood,
No lovelier spot in the dale;
No place is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the vale,
Oh, come to the church in the wildwood,
Oh, come to the church in the vale.
Wm. S. Pitts

The little brown church pictured in William Pitts' Church in the Wildwood could very well be a description of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brownsville, Minnesota. The little brown church in which Emanuel congregation worshiped for some 30 years still stands in Brownsville. The Minnesota State Historical Society now holds title to the property and maintains the building as one of its historic sites. It is also listed in the National Registry of Historic Sites.

No individual statistics are available for Emanuel congregation until 1920, because the congregation was being served by neighboring pastors in a tri-parish or even quad-parish arrangement. However, the Minnesota District Proceedings do list Emanuel congregation as having 28 souls, 22 communicants, and six voters in 1920. From 1877 until the congregation's dissolution in 1963, these neighboring pastors served the little group at var
ious times:

P. Hinderer of Immanuel, South Ridge 1886-1890

• Naturalization: From 1920 Census, 1891.

• Occupation: Founded German Lutheran Church, 1896, Zumbrota, Minnesota. From "History of Goodhue County Minnesota" edited by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, 1909, Page 382

• Occupation: Pastor, 1905-1919, Rauville Township, Minnesota. St. John’s Cemetery, Rauville Township Codington County, South Dakota

Pastor Paul Hinderer served from 1905 to 1919.
Rev.Paul Hinderer taught in the parochial school here.

http://watweb.sdln.net/genealogy/rauville-st-johns.pdf

• Occupation: Lutheran Minister, Cir 1910, Mazeppa Township, Grant County, South Dakota. St John's Lutheran Church of Mazeppa Township, Grant County, South Dakota Eastern South Dakota attracted a large German population in the late 1880’s. There were several Lutheran congregations in Grant, Watertown and Hamlin counties. In the 1870’s and early 1880’s these congregations were served by a circuit pastor, stationed in Marshall, Minnesota. In 1884, the Minnesota Synod called a full-time pastor to serve the three counties. Even then, he could only be at each congregation once every three weeks. He was paid $85 a year and a bag of oats per member. My Great-Grandpa Herman Krause was on the organizing committee for the Mazeppa Congregation, first called St Paulus Gemeinde, then given the present name in Jan of 1897. Prior to 1916, all services and confirmation instruction were conducted in German.
1910 Rev Paul Hinderer will open a school in South Shore next Monday for the teaching of German and the instruction of a confirmation class. It will last about three months. (The paper later reported an enrollment of about twenty).


June 15th, 1911 On Tuesday of this week, the congregations of the Germantown, Mazeppa, and South Shore Lutheran churches sprung a pleasant surprise on their pastor, Rev. Paul Hinderer, by congregating at South Shore and passing this day in honor of the 25th anniversary of his ordination into the ministry. The day was commenced, holding services in the church here in the forenoon. Rev Hupfer, of Oliva, Minn, preached the jubilee sermon taking his text from the first book of Samuel, 12th chapter and 7th verse.
In the afternoon, the congregations gathered in the park and spent a few social hours together. The band got out at three o’clock and played a few selections. Lemonade and ice cream were “on tap” and the band boys were well taken care of their trouble of getting out and playing. Rev. Hinderer is forty nine years of age and entered the church work in his twenty-fourth year. He was educated at the Doctor Martin Luther college at New Ulm, Minn and was ordained at his first charge, LaCresent, Minn. Afterwards he occupied pastorates at Goodhue, Morton and Redwood Falls, Minn. and the combined pastorate of the Mazeppa, Germantown and South Shore churches. The churches at LaCresent and Redwood Falls remembered the day and sent him congratulatory letters.
Rev. Hinderer and family occupy the spacious parsonage in Germantown about seven miles west of South Shore. While paying strict attention and devoting his life to the work of the church, he has not neglected his duty to his country, but has reared a sturdy family of ten children, seven of whom were at the festivities here Tuesday.
Rev Hinderer is very popular with his parisheners here and all other who know him are confident that the recognition given his anniversary was wholly merited and thankfully appreciated by the recipient.
Rev Hinderer requests us to extend his heartfelt thanks to his congregations for their kindness in thus remembering him, also to the South Shore band in helping to make the day a pleasant one.
Here’s hoping that the worthy man will live to spend another quarter of a century and more in the service of his Maker and his brethren.
From http://mysouthdakotaroots.com

• Residence: Locust Street, 5 Jan 1920, Waterville, Douglas, Washington. Renting, From Census

• Death: From FamilySearch, 19 Mar 1940, Waterville, Douglas, Washington. Name: Paul Hinderer
Death date: 19 Mar 1940
Death place: Waterville, Douglas, Washington
Gender: Male
Age at death: 77 years 4 months 19 days
Estimated birth year: 1863
Father name: Paul T. Hinderer
Film number: 2023753
Digital GS number: 4222935
Image number: 1351
Reference number: cn 12
Collection: Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960

Paul married Klara Schneider, daughter of Simon Jacob Schneider and Anna Susanna Straub. (Klara Schneider was born on 11 Oct 1859 in Germany and died on 31 Dec 1936 in Seattle, King, Washington.)