Herman Beumer, proprietor of the St. Cloud Dairy, was born in St. Augusta township, September 29, 1875, son of Frank Henry and Marie (Eilers) Beumer, the pioneers. He received his education in the public schools, and worked in his father's store until twenty-three years of age, in the meantime serving four years as postmaster during the first administration of William McKinley.

In 1898 Mr. Beumer went to St. Cloud, where he was engaged in business for two years. Then he and his wife occupied nearly a year in a vacation spent at Denver, Colorado, and other western points. Upon his return he became engineer for the Northwestern Granite Co. Three years later he secured a similar position at the St. Cloud pumping station, where he likewise remained about three years. Then he purchased the business now known as the St. Cloud Dairy.

He has an extensive and growing retail trade which has necessitated his increasing the number of his cows from six to twenty-two. Mr. Beumer is a well-known man. He was appointed by the governor as district census enumerator for the township of St. Augusta. He is a member of St. Cloud Camp, No. 744, C. O. F.

Mr. Beumer was married May 5, 1898, to Theresa Messmann, and they have had five children: Frank B. (died Augusta, 1907), Rosa, Florence, Eleanor and Clarence. The family faith is that of the Roman Catholic Church.

~ Excerpt taken from "History of Stearns County Minnesota" by William Bell Mitchell, 1915 (Vol. 2, pg. 939)