BIOGRAPHIES: Alexander AHERN, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Alexander Ahern, foreman of the Knapp, Stout Lumber Company, Rice Lake, was 
born in Lower Canada, November 15, 1862, a son of Peter and Sarah (McDonald) 
Ahern, who were both natives of Prince Edwards Island. The father's ancestors 
were Irish and the mother's Scotch. The family came to Wisconsin in 1871, 
lived in Dunn county one year, and then came to Rice Lake, where the father 
engaged as a carpenter with the Knapp, Stout Lumber Company. Peter Ahern died 
in 1881; his wife preceded him in 1879. They had a family of ten children, of 
whom our subject is the youngest. Alexander Ahern attended school in Canada 
and Rice Lake, Wis., and finally studied under Father Goldsmith at Chippewa 
Falls. He began to work for the Knapp, Stout Lumber Company when but fifteen 
years old, and has been with them ever since that time. He has held his 
present position as foreman for eleven years. He was reared in the Roman 
Catholic church. Politically he adheres to the policy of the democratic party.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 919.