Bio of KRAUS, Fred Henry (b.1867), Wright Co., MN
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1078 HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Fred Henry Kraus, a highly esteemed farmer of Woodland township, 
was born in Waconia township, Carver county, December 26, 1867, son of 
Christian Kraus. He was educated in the district schools of Carver and 
Wright counties, and as a youth started work in his father's hardware 
store in Montrose. For four or five years he worked in the elevator 
at Montrose, and then went to Lester Prairie, in McLeod county, this 
state, where he remained a similar period. After this he returned and 
took up farming on section 2, Woodland township. He began with eighty 
acres covered with heavy timber. The only building was an old shed. 
With energy he set at work developing the place. He now owns 120 acres, 
has a sightly home and splendid barns, and successfully carries on 
general farming and stockraising. He is also developing a splendid flock 
of White Wyandotte chickens. Being of a fraternal disposition, he has 
joined the Canton and the Encampment of the I.O.O.F., and is also a 
member of the M.W.A. Mr. Kraus was married December 31,

HISTORY OFWRIGHT COUNTY                          1079 

1891, to Albina Gilmer, daughter of Hugh A. and Sarah (Montgomery)   
Gilmer. Mr. and Mrs. Kraus have a son, Harley. A little girl, Vera, 
also makes her home with them. Hugh A. Gilmer and Sarah Montgomery, 
parents of Mrs. Albina Kraus, were natives of Canada, and were there 
married in 1860. In the early sixties they came to the States and took 
up their home, being among the early settlers of McLeod county, where 
they remained for many years, after which they came to Wright county, 
where Mr. Gilmer died in 1904. Mrs. Gilmer now resides at Delano, this 
county. They were the parents of ten children: Margaret M., Leafy, 
Isabelle, Alexander, Agnes, Albina, Thomas, Richard (deceased), Elmer, 
and an unnamed infant, deceased.