BIOGRAPHIES: Martin Joseph BUNGARTZ, Rice Lake Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 19 October 2000 ==================================================================== Martin Joseph Bungartz, known as Joseph Bungartz, a successful farmer, owning 160 acres in Section 36, Rice Lake Township, was born in Germany, Nov 17, 1863, son of Peter J. and Margaretha (Wolber) Bungartz. His mother had returned to Germany after the father had enlisted in the Union Army for service in the Civil War. In the early eighties, Martin bought his present farm. A claim shanty had been erected on the place and a little clearing done. He moved into the shanty, and commenced to develop a farm. He built a frame house and a log barn and purchased equipment as necessity required and means permitted. In 1916 he built the present frame barn. Other buildings have also been erected as required. Mr. Bungartz is a solid, substantial citizen. He has been road overseer for some twenty years, and director on the school board for several terms. Mr. Bungartz was married at Rice Lake, Sept. 17, 1889, to Rosalia Krug, daughter of Kosmas and Maria (Schwartz) Krug, natives respectively of Prussia and Austria. The mother died Sept. 15, 1915; and the father, Nov. 24, 1917 Mr and Mrs. Bungartz have five children: John William, Margaret B., Frank J., Helena P., and Ernest V. John William was born July 26, 1890, married Claris Amens, and has one son, Guy J., born Dec. 23, 1919. Margaret B. was born Sept. 14, 1891, married Martin Luethner, and has two children, Millicent and Genevieve. Frank J. was born March 10, 1896. Helen P. was born Sept. 18, 1898 and married Gregory Weber. Ernest V. was born Sept. 23, 1899. The parents of Mrs. Bungartz were early settlers of Barron County. They often walked to Chippewa and one time carried Mrs. Bungartz as a child on such a trip, she being then three months old. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 681.