Bio of Wagner, Peter W. (b.1867) Wabasha Co., MN
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Wagner, Peter W. (page 721), a prominent farmer of Zumbro Township, now
chairman of the town board of supervisors, was born in the Province of the
Rhine (or Rhenish Prussia), Germany, June 22, 1867, son of Nicholas and
Anna (Lichtendahl) Wagner. The parents came to America, and to Wabasha
County, Minn., in 1893, settling in Hyde Park Township, where Nicholas
Wagner was subsequently engaged in farming until his death on September 8,
1903. His wife died in October, 1913. They were Catholics in religion.
Their children were Peter W., Helen (now deceased), Anna and Andrew. Peter
W. Wagner came to this country before his parents, in 1889, locating at
Hammond, Wabasha County, Minn. At first he engaged in farm labor, and then
for eight years operated rented farms. In 1903, having through economy
made some financial progress, he bought 267 acres in section 27, Zumbro
Township, where he now resides. He has improved his place by the erection
of a complete set of buildings, including a fine barn 36 by 80 feet in
ground dimensions. His farm is equipped with an individual electric
lighting plant. As a general farmer and stock raiser he has been very
successful, and also feeds a large amount of stock in the winter time. He
is a stockholder in the Farmers State Bank of Hammond; also in the Hammond
Co-operative Creamery and the Hammond telephone Company. He has been a
member of the town board for three years, now serving as chairman, and is
a man of public spirit in all things concerning the welfare of the
community in which he resides. A Catholic in religion, he is fraternally a
member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Wagner was married November
2, 1897, to Ida Mullen, born March 19, 1867, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Mullen, the parents being natives of Pennsylvania, in which state
the mother still lives; the father died January 10, 1912. They had ten
children: George, John, James, William, Frank, Anna, Bernice, Ida, Stella
and June. James is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner are the parents of
six children: Agnes, born September 12, 1898, now Mrs. Thomas McGrath of
Highland Township; Ruth, born December 24, 1900, who is the wife of Leo
Wiley of Plainview Village; Paul, born May 19, 1902; Arthur and William
(twins), born February 24, 1905; and Carl, born April 6, 1912.