Biographies:  Kurt BAUCH, Stanley Township, Barron Co., WI 

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Kurt  Bauch is a native of this county and has watched its growth from a
lumbering  region  into one of the best dairy districts in the state. He
is  acquainted  with most of the leading men of the county, and has held
the  esteem  and  liking of his fellow citizens from boyhood up. Born on
the old homestead in Section 21, Stanley Township, April 15, 1881, he is
the  son of Bernard and Mary Bauch, early settlers. He was reared on the
old  farm, attended school in the neighborhood, and learned farming from
his  father.  After his marriage he rented a modern farm of 240 acres in
Stanley Township, of which 160 acres are under the plow. Here he carries
on general farming, and makes a specialty of raising high grade Holstein
cattle,  Poland  China  swine,  and  fine  draft horses. Recently he has
purchased a well-improved farm in Section 14, Barron Township Mr. Bauch
was married May 15, 1912, at Cameron, to Minnie Sweitcher, born Feb. 15,
1892,  the  daughter  of Jacob and Lizzie Sweitcher. This union has been
blessed  with three children, Walter, born March 15, 1913; Dorothy, born
Aug. 14, 1915, and Gertrude, born Aug. 24, 1917.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pp. 756