BIOGRAPHIES: George BRAATON, Maple Grove Township, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 3 January 2004 ************************************************************************ George Braaton, prosperous young farmer of Section 35, west, Maple Grove Township, was born in Granite Falls, Minn., Dec. 10, 1888, son of Gilbert 0. and Carrie J. (Braake) Braaton. He lived with his parents in Granite Falls, and Hanley Falls, Minn., and at Wood Lake, Minn., where he completed his schooling with a two-years’ course in the high school. He then associated himself with his father and opened a shoe shop and repair shop in that place. He came to this county with his father in 1911 and has since been associated with him in his ventures with the exception of about two years when he clerked in various stores in North Dakota. He is now his father’s partner in the farm, and is one of the well-known young men of the community. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 1001. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm