BIOGRAPHIES: Alfred P. AST, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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Alfred P. Ast, of Alfred P. Ast & Co., Cumberland, dealers and
manufacturers of American and brick cheese, is a thorough expert in his
line, and is building up a business which is proving an important asset to
this part of the state. He was born in Switzerland, Oct. 13, 1889, son of
Bernard and Caroline Ast, both natives of that country, the former of whom
is still farming there, and the latter of whom is dead. In the family there
are six children, of whom Bernard, Ernest, Robert and Alfred live in the
State of Wisconsin, and Godfrey and Emma in Switzerland. Alfred P. was
reared in his native country, and was there educated. His boyhood was spent
on a dairy farm, and he early became interested in cheese and butter
making, which he thoroughly mastered. He came to the United States in 1907
as a youth of eighteen, and engaged in cheese making at Dodgeville, Wis. In
1919 he came to Cumberland and established his present business. Mr. Ast
was married at Dodgeville, Wis., in January, 1916, to Clara Larson, and
they have two children, Bernard, born August, 1920, and Catherine, born in
June, 1919.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 266.