BIOGRAPHIES: Louis A DUNNEBOIL, Rice Lake, 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 7 January 2002 ==================================================================== Louis A. Dunneboil, superintendent of the municipal waterworks and electric light plant, at Rice Lake, living at 322 Reuter avenue, was born in Germany, Aug. 29, 1876, son of Charles and Wilhelmina (Rost) Dunneboil. He attended school until he was a youth of sixteen, and then learned the machinist's trade. He came to America in 1892, and for three years was employed on boats plying the Hudson river and the Erie canal between New York city and Buffalo. In 1895 he came to Stanley, in this state, and became engineer for the Northwestern Lumber Co., with whom he remained for fourteen years. In 1909 he became chief engineer for the Conner Lumber & Land Co. at Laona. He came to Rice Lake in 1912 as superintendent for the Red Cedar Valley Electric Co. In 1918 he was superintendent for the Wisconsin & Minnesota Light & Power Co. at Rice Lake. The next year he worked for himself, and in 1920 assumed the duties of his present position. In addition to his other holdings, Mr. Dunneboil has a part interest with Ole Moe in a store on Main street, which is profitably rented. He was married Aug. 19, 1901, to Anna Wald of Stanley, Wis., daughter of Frank and Anna Wald, who came from Austria in 1877 and settled in Stanley, Wis., where they died, he Jan. 5, 1907, and she June 4, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Dunneboil have five children: Mary Anna, born July 30, 1902; Veronica Mary, born July 2, 1906; Albert Frank, born March 31, 1909; Clarence Edward, born Nov. 16, 1913, and Joseph Michael, born April 24, 1916. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 216.