BIOGRAPHIES: Otto BOORTZ, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI

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Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  11 February 2002	
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Otto Boortz, an energetic farmer who is operating the family homestead,
Section 29, Sumner Township, in partnership with his brother, Paul H., was
born in a log house on the place where he now resides, June 2, 1888, the
son of Herman and Otilia (Kruger) Boortz, the pioneers. He was reared to
farm pursuits by his parents and attended the district school in the
neighborhood. For some years he was employed by the "Soo" railroad, and for
a time he worked in the shipyards at Superior, Wis. The home farm which he
assists in operating consists of eighty acres of good land in Section 29,
and with his brother he also owns an additional eighty in Section 30. The
subject of this sketch is one of the popular young men of the township and
takes his part in everything that he believes to be for the best interests
of the community at large. He is a lover of out-of-door life, and is
especially interested in all kinds of sports, especially baseball. He
thoroughly understands farming, he is a hard worker, and is proud of the
development of this part of the county, which his parents and other
relatives assisted in settling so many years ago. The brothers carry on
general farming on a successful scale, and raise Guernsey cattle, Duroc
swine and Percheron horses. Both are stockholders in the Farmers'
Co-operative Shipping Association at Canton. During the War, when his
brother was at the front, Otto shouldered the extra responsibilities, and
did his share as a good citizen for the cause in which his brother was
enlisted.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 723-724.