BIOGRAPHIES:  Frank FELDKIRCHNER, Stanfold Township, Barron Co., WI

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Frank Feldkirchner, who is successfully farming 120 acres in section 24,
Stanfold Township, was born at Ashton, Lee County, Ill., April 1, 1867, son
of Adam and Elizabeth (Blubach) Feldkirchner, natives of Bavaria, Germany,
the former born in 1833 and the latter Dec. 25, 1829. The father, who was a
shoemaker by trade, devoted his early life to that trade in his native land
and in America. In 1869 he bought government land in Ashton, Lee County,
Ill., and there farmed the remainder of his life. He died May 4, 1917. The
mother died at the age of 80 years. Frank Feldkirchner left school at the
age of seventeen and remained on the farm with his father until he was
twenty years old. In 1887 he went to Clinton, Iowa, where he worked in a
saw mill a few months. That fall he operated a threshing engine in Sioux
County, Iowa. Then he went to Fort Scott, Kans., worked in a mine that
winter and in the spring of 1888 secured employment in a brick yard there.
In the fall he returned to Iowa, and operated a threshing engine in Sioux
County. He returned to Fort Scott in the early winter, and worked in the
mines there two years. Next he worked two years in the mines at Chicopee,
Crawford County, this state. In 1892 he opened a barber shop at Sloan, in
Woodberry County, Iowa. The next year he took up farming in his native
town, and in 1896 moved to Franklin Grove in the same county, where he
continued in agricultural operations and blacksmithing. He came to Barron
County and purchased his present place in 1901. He cleared the timber, and
with this timber erected a good house, barn and other buildings. On this
place he still successfully conducts general farming and dairying, having a
good herd of Durham cattle, a good drove of Duroc swine and a few good
Norman horses. One of the features of the place is the blacksmith shop,
where he does all his own blacksmith work and wagon repairing, and he was
active as a general blacksmith until seven years ago. He and his family are
members of the Church of the Brethren, of which he is a clerk, being also
superintendent of the Sunday school and trustee. Mr. Feldkirchner was
married Aug. 1, 1888, at Nevada, Mo., to Viola McMillan, daughter of Edward
B. and Lila Jane (Bruce) McMillan, natives respectively of Kentucky and
Connecticut, the father dying Jan. 10, 1910, in Ohio, and the mother still
living in Kansas, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Feldkirchner are the parents of six
children--an unnamed infant, Zella Diana, Oscar, Ellen Muriel, Glen Martin
and Rosa Vivian. The first child was born Dec. 27, 1889, and died at the
age of nine days. Zella Diana was born at Chicopee, Kans., July 10, 1891,
was married at Rice Lake, Dec. 8, 1910, to A. T. Vine, and has four
children: Emery Franklin, born July 6, 1911; Frances Vodica, born Jan. 10,
1913; Faith Eunice, born Sept. 5, 1915; and Marian Inez, born May 29, 1918.
Oscar was born June 15, 1893, and died Dec. 20, 1893. Ellen Muriel was born
at Franklin Grove, Ill., and was married at Rice Lake, Nov. 10, 1915, to
Nels Prytz, by whom she has three children: Cecil Earl, born Nov. 26, 1916;
Vernon Lyle, born June 6, 1919; and Lawrence Virgil, born Aug. 24, 1920.
Glen Martin was born Nov. 1, 1903, and Rosa Vivian, Sept. 21, 1910.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 168.


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