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'''December 21, 1929 Spokesman-Review Page 9:'''
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[[file:1929-12-21-sr-p9-peter-tramm-obit.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''BROUGHT FAMILY 5O YEARS AGO'''
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'''Peter Tramm, 84, Was Pioneer Farmer and Banker—Dies on Visit to Germany.'''
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REARDAN, Wash, Dec 19.—Peter Tramm,
84, an old-time settler of Lincoln
county, died following
a paralytic stroke in Schleswig,
Germany, yesterday, according
to a cablegram received by relatives
here. He was on a year's visit to the
fatherland and was ill for about
two weeks.

Mr. Tramm and wife, with four
small children, came to Washington
from Wisconsin 50 years ago.
landing in Cheney from Walla
Walla, after having taken a boat
from San Francisco. From Cheney,
Mr. Tramm took his family by
wagon to Reardan, where he bought
a homestead of 160 acres. In 1897,
he retired from farming, after having
accumulated an estate of 800
acres of choice wheat land. He was
a vice president of the Reardan
National bank and was active in
the Masons and Odd Fellows.

'''Lived With Daughter Here.'''

Born in Schleswig, November 6,
1845, Mr, Tramm came to America
at 24 and settled in Wisconsin,
where he married Miss Mary Fredrickson.
Mrs. Tramm died in 1925.
After her death, Mr. Tramm sold
his Reardan property and made his
home with his daughter, Mrs, Emma
Stevenson of Spokane. In 1927
he made a trip to Germany. Last
May, despite his age, he made a
second trip.

He is survived by two sons, P.
N. Tramm of Reardan and H. C.
Tramm of Spokane; two daughters,
Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. William
Wendlandt of Reardan; 12 grandchildren
and seven great-grand-children.

The body will be returned from
Germany.
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