The 1860 United States census showed Mikel Bierlein (age 9, born in Ohio) living with his parents George (age 45, born in Germany, farmer) and Anna Maria (age 42, born in Germany) in Laketown, Carver County, Minnesota. His other siblings were Barbara (age 11, born in Pennsylvania), Paulus (age 3, born in Ohio), and Jacob (age 2, born in Minnesota).
The 1870 United States census showed Michael Burlein (age 21, born in Ohio) living with his parents Georg (age 57, born in Bavaria, farmer) and Anna Maria (age 52, born in Bavaria) in Laketown Township, Carver County, Minnesota. His other siblings were Paulius (age 16, born in Ohio) and Jacob (age 11, born in Minnesota).
The 1875 Minnesota census showed Michael Bierlein (age 24, born in Ohio) married to Bertha (age 20, born in Ohio) and living in Chaska, Minnesota. Michael lived with his parents George (age 63, born in Germany) and Mary (age 57, born in Germany) and his other siblings Paul (age 19, born in Ohio), Jacob (age 16, born in Minnesota), and Barbara (age 18, born in Minnesota).
The 1880 United States census showed Michael Bierline (age 28, born in Ohio, hotel keeper) married to Bertha (age 22, born in Wisconsin) and living in Chaska, Minnesota. Children Ida (age 4, born in Minnesota), Ollie (age 2, born in Minnesota), and Millie (age 5 months, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
M. Bierline was born in Ohio in 1851. When only six years old he moved with his parents to Laketown, Carver county, Minnesota. His father made a claim of 120 acres, on which he lived and attended school until eighteen years of age. Came to Chaska and began working in the brickyards, remaining until 1876. Removed to Stearns county and started a brick-yard, which he sold eight months later and returned to Chaska. He continued in the brick-making business eleven months, then engaged in milling in Waconia, erecting a mill at a cost of $16,000. Ten months later he removed the building to Chaska, and continued milling two years. He took as a partner A. Riedele in March, 1881, and started a brick-yard. They employ fifteen men, and make from ten thousand to twelve thousand per day. Miss Bertha Hecklin became his wife in 1874. Ida, Oliver and Amile are their living children. (History of the Minnesota Valley, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Rev. Edward D. Neill, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1882, Page 361)
The 1885 Minnesota census showed Mich. Bierline (age 34, born in Ohio) married to Bertha (age 27, born in Minnesota) and living in Chaska, Minnesota. Children Ida (age 9, born in Minnesota), Olliver (age 7, born in Minnesota), and Emil (age 5, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
Bierline, Michael, Chaska, Minn. Brick-machine…Number: 469,225, Date: Feb. 23. (Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, Page 30)
The 1900 United States census showed Mike Bierline (age 48, born in October 1851 in Ohio, brickyard foreman) married to Bertha H. (age 39, born in August 1860 in Wisconsin) and living in Chaska, Minnesota. Children Oliver C. (age 21, born in September 1878 in Minnesota, brickyard engineer), Esther B. (age 10, born in August 1889 in Minnesota), Milton M. (age 5, born in August 1894 in Minnesota), and Emmett (age 1, born in May 1899 in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
Michel Bierline died June 9, 1912, in Hennepin County, Minnesota.