BIOGRAPHIES: Fred BRUHA, Bear Lake Township, Barron County, WI

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Fred Bruha, one of the leading citizens of Bear Lake Township, who is
developing a good farm in section 13, was born in Washington Township, 
La Crosse County, this state, April 27, 1881, the son of Matt and Rosa
(Urbanek), Bruha, natives of Bohemia. The father came to this country as a
young man, lived in St. Louis for a while, then settled on a farm in La
Crosse County. Later he came to Barron County, and is now making his home
at Haugen. The subject of this sketch received his early education in the
common schools, and early took up farming as his life work. He bought 120
acres in section 13, Bear Lake Township, and erected a frame house, barn,
machine shed, granary and other buildings out of lumber which he got from
the trees which he felled in clearing the land. There he successfully
carries on general farming and dairying, having a good herd of cattle
headed by a full blooded Holstein sire, an excellent flock of sheep, and a
drove of Duroc Red swine. Mr. Bruha is a believer in everything that is for
the betterment and more systematic conduct of farm production and
marketing. He is secretary of the American Society of Equity at Haugen,
secretary of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Barron County, secretary of
the Wool Pool Association of Haugen and a stockholder in the Bear Lake and
Lakeside Cheese Co. at Haugen and the Consumers' Store at Haugen. He has
taken an especially active interest in school affairs in his district and
has been clerk of the board some twelve years. He is a careful, painstaking
keeper of records, and his work as secretary of the various organizations
has won him high favor among his fellow men. Fraternally, he is a popular
member of the Z. C. B. J. Mr. Bruha was married Jan. 26, 1909, at Haugen,
this county, to Anna Baker, who was born Feb. 22, 1886, daughter of Joseph
and Anna (Wanek) Baker, retired farmers of that place. He and his wife have
six bright children: Frederick R., born Oct. 20, 1910; Mary, Oct. 8, 1911;
Margaret, Nov. 24, 1914; Blanche, Sept. 21, 1916; Anna, Nov. 28, 1918, and
Edward, Oct. 25, 1920.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 714.