Dr. Christopher Carli was the first civilian doctor in Minnesota. His obituary appeared in the Stillwater newspaper in Novembr 1887 and read:
Dr. Christopher Carli's Obituary 6 Nov 1887 Stillwater, Minnesota
Christopher Carli. M. D., whose serious illness was noted in our last, quietly breathed his last at ten o'clock Sunday morning, having been semi-unconscious or delirious during the last few days of his life. The funeral took place from the Universalist church at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, Rev. W.H. Harrington officiating and a male quartette composed of Messrs. Haskell, Davis, Masterman and Barrett, assisting by the rendition of two or three appropriate vocal selections. The remains were conveyed to Fairview cemetery and placed in a vault in the Carli block, where nearly a score of children, grandchildren and other relatives have preceded him. The pall-bearers were Drs. Murphy, Marshall, Watier and Clark and Messrs. Hospes, Lehmicke, Jassoy and Thelan.
Christopher Carli was born December 7, 1811 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, his father being an Italian merchant at that place and his mother a German lady, Catherine Ehamant Carli. At sixteen years of age he became a student at the gymnasium at Heidelberg University and later at the university proper, devoting his time to the study of literature and medicine, receiving from that great university the degree doctor of medicine. He quitted Heidelberg in October, 1831, and a short time later embarked for the new world in the sailing vessel "Constitution." The ship reached New York February 8, 1832, eighty-eight days having been consumed in making the passage from Bremen. In April of the same year, on the opening of navigation through the Erie Canal he left New York by that route for Buffalo, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until December 1835, when he re-crossed the ocean and passed two years in his native land. He returned in 1837 and began practice in Chicago, remaining there only one season, after which he visited New Orleans and returned to Chicago in 1839. On May 13, 1841 he came to the then territory of Wisconsin, now the state of Minnesota, reaching Grey Cloud Island May 13, and landing at the head of St. Croix Lake, the present site of this city, June 29.
The present Mrs. Carli's brother Joseph R. Brown, had come to this place previously, and not long after Dr. Carli's arrival the two built what was known as the Tamarack house, situate on the present site of the Schulenburg & Boeckeler mill stables. The structure was of logs and a widely-known and most hospitable resort. A writer when referring to the "Tamarack" says: "The logs were long, the was two stories high and large for those days, and a little later the one solitary fiddle at times called a great many amiable choppers and other workmen, thorough-bred white people and half breeds, to their feet in that old house. It was the scene of much innocent hilarity. When Mrs. Carli, settled here in 1841 with her husband there were not a dozen white women in the whole present state of Minnesota. She sometimes passed six months without seeing an unadulterated Caucasian woman, and but for the excellent library of Maj. Brown and that mirth-in-spiring fiddle, there were periods of time which would have dragged a very slow length along." During this period the practice of Dr. Carli in its range of territory covered not only the customary trips to Sunrise, Fort Snelling and Red Wing, but as he was the only physician in the northwestern portion of Wisconsin Territory he was often called to points at a greater distance. "One of his patients was an Indian princess, daughter of Little Crow, chief of the Sioux nation, his headquarters being sometimes in Washington, sometimes in Ramsey and sometimes in some other county." On one occasion the Dr. went to Red Wing to visit a patient and traversed thirty miles of the distance on skates, an Indian runner preceding him to make sure that the ice was safe. Dr. Carli not only opened in 1846 the first drug store here(of which the City drug store is a direct successor) but was a member of the first Stillwater council and was an early city and county physician. He started the first bank here, which, however, in trying times met with disaster. He was also in his earlier days associated with lumbering interests of the valley and at all times took an active and patriotic interest in the welfare of the community.
He was married March 12, 1847, to Mrs. Lydia Ann Carli, the widow of the doctor's brother Paul J. Carli and the half-sister of Major Joseph R. Brown. The fruit of this marriage was seven children, of whom with his mother, but one, Christopher H. Carli, survives. With the death of Dr. Carli there has passed form an eventful and busy life not only one among the earliest settlers, but a physician longest in practice in Minnesota or Wisconsin or any who lives or has lived in the territory now composing those two states.
Dr. Christopher Carli's Obituary 6 Nov 1887 Stillwater, Minnesota
Christopher Carli. M. D., whose serious illness was noted in our last, quietly breathed his last at ten o'clock Sunday morning, having been semi-unconscious or delirious during the last few days of his life. The funeral took place from the Universalist church at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, Rev. W.H. Harrington officiating and a male quartette composed of Messrs. Haskell, Davis, Masterman and Barrett, assisting by the rendition of two or three appropriate vocal selections. The remains were conveyed to Fairview cemetery and placed in a vault in the Carli block, where nearly a score of children, grandchildren and other relatives have preceded him. The pall-bearers were Drs. Murphy, Marshall, Watier and Clark and Messrs. Hospes, Lehmicke, Jassoy and Thelan.
Christopher Carli was born December 7, 1811 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, his father being an Italian merchant at that place and his mother a German lady, Catherine Ehamant Carli. At sixteen years of age he became a student at the gymnasium at Heidelberg University and later at the university proper, devoting his time to the study of literature and medicine, receiving from that great university the degree doctor of medicine. He quitted Heidelberg in October, 1831, and a short time later embarked for the new world in the sailing vessel "Constitution." The ship reached New York February 8, 1832, eighty-eight days having been consumed in making the passage from Bremen. In April of the same year, on the opening of navigation through the Erie Canal he left New York by that route for Buffalo, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until December 1835, when he re-crossed the ocean and passed two years in his native land. He returned in 1837 and began practice in Chicago, remaining there only one season, after which he visited New Orleans and returned to Chicago in 1839. On May 13, 1841 he came to the then territory of Wisconsin, now the state of Minnesota, reaching Grey Cloud Island May 13, and landing at the head of St. Croix Lake, the present site of this city, June 29.
The present Mrs. Carli's brother Joseph R. Brown, had come to this place previously, and not long after Dr. Carli's arrival the two built what was known as the Tamarack house, situate on the present site of the Schulenburg & Boeckeler mill stables. The structure was of logs and a widely-known and most hospitable resort. A writer when referring to the "Tamarack" says: "The logs were long, the was two stories high and large for those days, and a little later the one solitary fiddle at times called a great many amiable choppers and other workmen, thorough-bred white people and half breeds, to their feet in that old house. It was the scene of much innocent hilarity. When Mrs. Carli, settled here in 1841 with her husband there were not a dozen white women in the whole present state of Minnesota. She sometimes passed six months without seeing an unadulterated Caucasian woman, and but for the excellent library of Maj. Brown and that mirth-in-spiring fiddle, there were periods of time which would have dragged a very slow length along." During this period the practice of Dr. Carli in its range of territory covered not only the customary trips to Sunrise, Fort Snelling and Red Wing, but as he was the only physician in the northwestern portion of Wisconsin Territory he was often called to points at a greater distance. "One of his patients was an Indian princess, daughter of Little Crow, chief of the Sioux nation, his headquarters being sometimes in Washington, sometimes in Ramsey and sometimes in some other county." On one occasion the Dr. went to Red Wing to visit a patient and traversed thirty miles of the distance on skates, an Indian runner preceding him to make sure that the ice was safe. Dr. Carli not only opened in 1846 the first drug store here(of which the City drug store is a direct successor) but was a member of the first Stillwater council and was an early city and county physician. He started the first bank here, which, however, in trying times met with disaster. He was also in his earlier days associated with lumbering interests of the valley and at all times took an active and patriotic interest in the welfare of the community.
He was married March 12, 1847, to Mrs. Lydia Ann Carli, the widow of the doctor's brother Paul J. Carli and the half-sister of Major Joseph R. Brown. The fruit of this marriage was seven children, of whom with his mother, but one, Christopher H. Carli, survives. With the death of Dr. Carli there has passed form an eventful and busy life not only one among the earliest settlers, but a physician longest in practice in Minnesota or Wisconsin or any who lives or has lived in the territory now composing those two states.
Dr. Christopher Carli was the first civilian doctor in Minnesota. His obituary appeared in the Stillwater newspaper in Novembr 1887 and read:
Dr. Christopher Carli's Obituary 6 Nov 1887 Stillwater, Minnesota
Christopher Carli. M. D., whose serious illness was noted in our last, quietly breathed his last at ten o'clock Sunday morning, having been semi-unconscious or delirious during the last few days of his life. The funeral took place from the Universalist church at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, Rev. W.H. Harrington officiating and a male quartette composed of Messrs. Haskell, Davis, Masterman and Barrett, assisting by the rendition of two or three appropriate vocal selections. The remains were conveyed to Fairview cemetery and placed in a vault in the Carli block, where nearly a score of children, grandchildren and other relatives have preceded him. The pall-bearers were Drs. Murphy, Marshall, Watier and Clark and Messrs. Hospes, Lehmicke, Jassoy and Thelan.
Christopher Carli was born December 7, 1811 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, his father being an Italian merchant at that place and his mother a German lady, Catherine Ehamant Carli. At sixteen years of age he became a student at the gymnasium at Heidelberg University and later at the university proper, devoting his time to the study of literature and medicine, receiving from that great university the degree doctor of medicine. He quitted Heidelberg in October, 1831, and a short time later embarked for the new world in the sailing vessel "Constitution." The ship reached New York February 8, 1832, eighty-eight days having been consumed in making the passage from Bremen. In April of the same year, on the opening of navigation through the Erie Canal he left New York by that route for Buffalo, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until December 1835, when he re-crossed the ocean and passed two years in his native land. He returned in 1837 and began practice in Chicago, remaining there only one season, after which he visited New Orleans and returned to Chicago in 1839. On May 13, 1841 he came to the then territory of Wisconsin, now the state of Minnesota, reaching Grey Cloud Island May 13, and landing at the head of St. Croix Lake, the present site of this city, June 29.
The present Mrs. Carli's brother Joseph R. Brown, had come to this place previously, and not long after Dr. Carli's arrival the two built what was known as the Tamarack house, situate on the present site of the Schulenburg & Boeckeler mill stables. The structure was of logs and a widely-known and most hospitable resort. A writer when referring to the "Tamarack" says: "The logs were long, the was two stories high and large for those days, and a little later the one solitary fiddle at times called a great many amiable choppers and other workmen, thorough-bred white people and half breeds, to their feet in that old house. It was the scene of much innocent hilarity. When Mrs. Carli, settled here in 1841 with her husband there were not a dozen white women in the whole present state of Minnesota. She sometimes passed six months without seeing an unadulterated Caucasian woman, and but for the excellent library of Maj. Brown and that mirth-in-spiring fiddle, there were periods of time which would have dragged a very slow length along." During this period the practice of Dr. Carli in its range of territory covered not only the customary trips to Sunrise, Fort Snelling and Red Wing, but as he was the only physician in the northwestern portion of Wisconsin Territory he was often called to points at a greater distance. "One of his patients was an Indian princess, daughter of Little Crow, chief of the Sioux nation, his headquarters being sometimes in Washington, sometimes in Ramsey and sometimes in some other county." On one occasion the Dr. went to Red Wing to visit a patient and traversed thirty miles of the distance on skates, an Indian runner preceding him to make sure that the ice was safe. Dr. Carli not only opened in 1846 the first drug store here(of which the City drug store is a direct successor) but was a member of the first Stillwater council and was an early city and county physician. He started the first bank here, which, however, in trying times met with disaster. He was also in his earlier days associated with lumbering interests of the valley and at all times took an active and patriotic interest in the welfare of the community.
He was married March 12, 1847, to Mrs. Lydia Ann Carli, the widow of the doctor's brother Paul J. Carli and the half-sister of Major Joseph R. Brown. The fruit of this marriage was seven children, of whom with his mother, but one, Christopher H. Carli, survives. With the death of Dr. Carli there has passed form an eventful and busy life not only one among the earliest settlers, but a physician longest in practice in Minnesota or Wisconsin or any who lives or has lived in the territory now composing those two states.
Dr. Christopher Carli's Obituary 6 Nov 1887 Stillwater, Minnesota
Christopher Carli. M. D., whose serious illness was noted in our last, quietly breathed his last at ten o'clock Sunday morning, having been semi-unconscious or delirious during the last few days of his life. The funeral took place from the Universalist church at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, Rev. W.H. Harrington officiating and a male quartette composed of Messrs. Haskell, Davis, Masterman and Barrett, assisting by the rendition of two or three appropriate vocal selections. The remains were conveyed to Fairview cemetery and placed in a vault in the Carli block, where nearly a score of children, grandchildren and other relatives have preceded him. The pall-bearers were Drs. Murphy, Marshall, Watier and Clark and Messrs. Hospes, Lehmicke, Jassoy and Thelan.
Christopher Carli was born December 7, 1811 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, his father being an Italian merchant at that place and his mother a German lady, Catherine Ehamant Carli. At sixteen years of age he became a student at the gymnasium at Heidelberg University and later at the university proper, devoting his time to the study of literature and medicine, receiving from that great university the degree doctor of medicine. He quitted Heidelberg in October, 1831, and a short time later embarked for the new world in the sailing vessel "Constitution." The ship reached New York February 8, 1832, eighty-eight days having been consumed in making the passage from Bremen. In April of the same year, on the opening of navigation through the Erie Canal he left New York by that route for Buffalo, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until December 1835, when he re-crossed the ocean and passed two years in his native land. He returned in 1837 and began practice in Chicago, remaining there only one season, after which he visited New Orleans and returned to Chicago in 1839. On May 13, 1841 he came to the then territory of Wisconsin, now the state of Minnesota, reaching Grey Cloud Island May 13, and landing at the head of St. Croix Lake, the present site of this city, June 29.
The present Mrs. Carli's brother Joseph R. Brown, had come to this place previously, and not long after Dr. Carli's arrival the two built what was known as the Tamarack house, situate on the present site of the Schulenburg & Boeckeler mill stables. The structure was of logs and a widely-known and most hospitable resort. A writer when referring to the "Tamarack" says: "The logs were long, the was two stories high and large for those days, and a little later the one solitary fiddle at times called a great many amiable choppers and other workmen, thorough-bred white people and half breeds, to their feet in that old house. It was the scene of much innocent hilarity. When Mrs. Carli, settled here in 1841 with her husband there were not a dozen white women in the whole present state of Minnesota. She sometimes passed six months without seeing an unadulterated Caucasian woman, and but for the excellent library of Maj. Brown and that mirth-in-spiring fiddle, there were periods of time which would have dragged a very slow length along." During this period the practice of Dr. Carli in its range of territory covered not only the customary trips to Sunrise, Fort Snelling and Red Wing, but as he was the only physician in the northwestern portion of Wisconsin Territory he was often called to points at a greater distance. "One of his patients was an Indian princess, daughter of Little Crow, chief of the Sioux nation, his headquarters being sometimes in Washington, sometimes in Ramsey and sometimes in some other county." On one occasion the Dr. went to Red Wing to visit a patient and traversed thirty miles of the distance on skates, an Indian runner preceding him to make sure that the ice was safe. Dr. Carli not only opened in 1846 the first drug store here(of which the City drug store is a direct successor) but was a member of the first Stillwater council and was an early city and county physician. He started the first bank here, which, however, in trying times met with disaster. He was also in his earlier days associated with lumbering interests of the valley and at all times took an active and patriotic interest in the welfare of the community.
He was married March 12, 1847, to Mrs. Lydia Ann Carli, the widow of the doctor's brother Paul J. Carli and the half-sister of Major Joseph R. Brown. The fruit of this marriage was seven children, of whom with his mother, but one, Christopher H. Carli, survives. With the death of Dr. Carli there has passed form an eventful and busy life not only one among the earliest settlers, but a physician longest in practice in Minnesota or Wisconsin or any who lives or has lived in the territory now composing those two states.
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