Emil Tessman, son of , was born September 27,1870 in Watertown, Wisconsin. He married Bertha Hintz September 23, 1896 in Mansfield Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota. He died 1933 in In Minneapolis.. Bertha Hintz, daughter of August Hintz and Louisa Fredericke Tortorte Yost , was born 1875 in Mansfield Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota.