I take the
liberty of bringing before you a
matte[r] that I would like much
better not to have to annoy you
with, as you have probably plenty
to do without giving you more
trouble. But you will see from
the following that I could not
very well do otherwise but come
to you.
& Germany; in Provoshe was enticed
by the father of G. N., Bro. John C. Naegele
to Toquerville, Washington Co. Utah,
to come down with him in the
service of one of his wives; without
much experience, she did not insist
much on his conditions of payment,
thinking because she had got the
money for her emigration from the
brother-in-law of John C. Naegele,
Mr. John Beck from Salt Lake City,
that she was bound more or less to
go with him, though she did not
like very well to go so far south.
Now she went and was for about
40 weeks at Mrs. Naegele's in Toquer-
ville, viz till April 1887; Mr John C.
Naegele never paid her any wages,
except a pair of shoes of $1.50, wollen
cloth for a suit of perhaps 3 or 4 dolls,
a piece of lady under clothing worth
80 c. or $1.00 and $10.00 for her journey
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back to Payson. Miss M Hofmann
had to force her way out of Mr. John
C. Naegele, viz. insist frequently and
strongly till he would allow her
to go out of his home, for he never
took her down with him but thin-
king she would become his wife, as
many of his utterances did show it.
Miss Hofmann never thought of such
thing and finally got out through
her firmness. In the month of October
1887 she became my wife at Logan,
and, as she was still owning for
her emigration, I wrote immediately
to Mr. John C. Naegele, to have to
pay me for her the sum of $120.00
or $3 per week for the 40 weeks she
was in his wife's home, Mrs. Rosalie
Zahler N., writing at the same
time to Pres. McAllister of the St. George
Stake (I join his answer to my letter).
I did ask $3 per week because Miss
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Hofmann was a good dress-maker,
and would at any time have made
that much or more besides her
board either in Washinton Co or
in Provo, or Payson or Salt Lake C[it]y
where she subsequently was; and
because she had to make many dres-
ses for N's folks and besides work
hard, harder than many young man
would splitting wood, cutting grass,
etc all the time, as many people
of Toquerville could certify. N's people
answered me, that he was not at
home; afterwards I wrote to his Bishop who answered me that
he (N.) would not pay anything
(his answer lies by).
Now my request, dear Brother,
is this, that if it is not too
much of you, please tell me what
I shall do. You see that neither
his Bishop or Pres. McAllister seem
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to think much upon my request
to them. Is it right for any man
to hire somebody keep them as
long as possible and then let them
go without any renumeration worth
of the time they have been hired?
Mr. John C. Naegele is rich and can
pay very well. If he was not paying
there would be a very simple way,
we would not pay back the $60 or 65
that my wife owes for her emigra-
tion, for he could pay them back
to his brother-in-law; but this
would not be a right way, and
then there are still two sisters of
my wife in the old country, and
may be be one of them could be helped
if that money could be sent back,
for Mr. Beck is actually or was
at least lately in Germany and
would perhaps let one have it.
Excuse, please, the long
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letter but necessary to give a clear
statement and would you be
kind enough and tell me
what to do.