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Author: L. A. Fritsche

FRED LANDSKRON.

    Fred Landskron, well-known proprietor of the Leona hotel at Sleepy Eye, this
county, is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in the town of Menasha, on
the shores of Winnebago lake, in Winnebago county, that state, February 20,
1877, son of Fred and Mary (Vetter) Landskron, natives of Austria, who came to
this country in 1873 and located in the Menasha neighborhood of Wisconsin, where
they spent the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Landskron dying there in 1883, at
the age of thirty-three years, Mr. Landskron surviving until 1907, he being
sixty-two years of age at the time of his death. The elder Fred Landskron was a
stationary engineer and he and his wife were the parents of four children,
namely: William, of Minneapolis, this state; Frank, of Neenah, Wisconsin; Fred,
the subject of this sketch, and Nettie, wife of Paul Fahrenkrug, of Leeman,
Wisconsin.

    Fred Landskron was reared at Menasha, Wisconsin, receiving his education in
the public schools of that place, and at the age of twelve years began working
for himself, taking employment in a pail factory at Menasha, where he worked for
several years. At the age of sixteen he came to Minnesota and began clerking in
a grocery store at Morton, in the neighboring county of Renville, later working
on the farm of Silas Baldsley, later in a livery stable at Fairfax and later
engaged in various pursuits, during which time he traveled extensively through
the Western states and in Iowa, until he came to Brown county and settled in
Sleepy Eye, which has been his home ever since, his present connection with the
popular Leona hotel giving him a wide acquaintance throughout southern
Minnesota, his hotel having a fine reputation with the traveling public on
account of the admirable management maintained by the proprietor and the
excellence of its rooms and cuisine.

     On January 12, 1915, Fred Landskron was united in marriage at Sleepy Eye,
to Mrs. Mary Fuller, a widow, who was born at Iberia, five miles south of Sleepy
Eye, January 14, 1872, daughter of John and Margaret (Wollena) Raschka, natives
of Bohemia, who came to America about the year 1869 and located at Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, where they remained until 1871, in which year they came to Brown
county and settled at Iberia, where John Raschka operated a shoe store and
repair shop for twelve years, at the end of which time he took up farming in
that neighborhood and was thus engaged for five of six years. Upon retiring from
the farm he and his wife made their home in Sleepy Eye, where they are now
living retired. John Raschka is the eldest of the seven children born to his
parents, John and Barbara Raschka, who spent all their lives m Bohemia, the
others being Mary, Margaret, Wenzel, Peter, Catherine and Frank. Mrs. Raschka is
one of the five children born to her parents, Adam Wollena and wife, who also
died in the old country, the others being George, John, Barbara and Eva. To John
Raschka and wive eleven children have been born, Margaret, Wenzel, Barbara,
John, Mary, Joseph, Henry, Emma, Theresa, Bertha and Fred.

     Mary Raschka received her elementary education in the public schools of
Iberia, this county, and was thirteen years old when her parents moved to Sleepy
Eye, where she grew to womanhood. On February 1, 1891, she was united in
marriage to Joseph Bier, who died on July 7, 1901, leaving three children,
Edward Peter, Leona and Viola, the former of whom died at the age of ten months
and eleven days. Some time after the death of Mr. Bier his widow married Lyman
Fuller and upon the death of the latter married Mr. Landskron. Mr. and Mrs.
Landskron are operating the Leona hotel in a manner that is winning them praise
from all their patrons, and they are doing a splendid and constantly increasing
business, the service they render in behalf of the traveling public making their
house one of the most popular hotels in this section of the state.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
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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