Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Lamge, William 1864 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

WILLIAM LANGE.

    William Lange, living on his well-improved farm of two hundred and fifty
acres in Home township, Brown county, Minnesota, is a native of Germany, born on
May 20, 1864, a son of Frederick and Rose Lange, both natives off that land.
There were six children in their family, namely: Anna, John, Emil, Meina,
William and August.

    Frederick Lange was early trained to farming and to that vocation gave his
attention all his life. Upon coming to this country with his family he came
directly to this county and state, and bought one hundred and sixty acres of
land in Home township. There were but few improvements on the place at the time,
but in the course of years he made of it a comfortable home and well ordered
farm. His death occurred in 1895.

    William Lange was a small boy when brought to this country by his parents
and owing to conditions in this section at that time, received but a limited
education in his youth. He attended the early township schools of Home township,
but his school days were over by the time he was ten years of age. From that
time on he was kept busy on the home place and in this connection remained with
his father until the time of the latter's death. William then took over the home
farm, purchasing an adjoining tract of ninety acres, making his total holdings
at the present time, two hundred and fifty acres. He divides his attention
between the raising of grains and live stock, feeding all of his corn on the
place and preparing for the market on an average of twenty-five hogs annually.
His trading point is Sleepy Eye, a distance of four miles with good roads,
conditions immeasurably removed from those under which his father so earnestly
labored.

    William Lange was united in marriage in 1895 with Hannah Wanderze. Mrs.
Lange was born in Germany and came to this country with a brother, her parents
never leaving their native land. Mr. and Mrs. Lange have the following children,
Helen, Frieda, Sadie, Edna, Bernard, Jacob. Mr. Lange and family are members of
the German Lutheran church at Sleepy Eye and take a commendable interest in the
welfare of that society. He is Republican in his political convictions and for
two years was a member of the township board.


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HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

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