BIOGRAPHIES:   Frank GREBNER, Arland Township, Barron County, WI

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Frank Grebner, one of the progressive and respected citizens of Arland
township, where he is successfully engaged in the farming and dairying
industry, was born in Iowa County, Wis., March 24, 1871, son of Joseph and
Anna Grebner. The parents were natives of Austria who came to the United
States in 1864, settling in Milwaukee. There Joseph Grebner worked for one
year at his trade as carpenter, at the end of that time removing to
Bluemounds, Wis., where he and his wife subsequently died. They had a family
of four children, all now living, namely: Joseph, who is a blacksmith in
Barnweld, Wis.; Anna, now Mrs. Martin Kjorlie of Bluemounds; Christina, who
married Joseph Goodman and lives in South Dakota; and Frank of Arland
Township, Barron County. Frank Grebner in his boyhood attended school at
Bluemounds, being subsequently engaged in farming and railroad work. In 1902
he came to Barron County and bought 80 acres, of land in section 1, Arland
Township, which he began to improve. During the first few years he did work
for his neighbors, for most of whom he cut grain, having one of the first
binders in the vicinity. He has stumped and cleared 35 acres of his land and
erected an adequate set of buildings, and his activities along the lines of
mixed farming and dairying have had profitable results. In 1911 Mr. Grebner
was elected supervisor on the township board and served one year. He was for
three years a director on the school board of district No. 1, and is now
serving in his sixth year as clerk. An able practical farmer and good
neighbor, he is widely known and esteemed. On Sept. 3, 1913, Mr. Grebner was
united in marriage with Mrs. Olaus Peterson, whose maiden name was Emma
Brocade. She was born at Barre Mills, Wis., July 30, 1873, daughter of Henry
and Minnie (Schaffer) Brocade. Her parents, who were born in Germany, came to
America in the late sixties, settling at Barre Mills, Wis., where they farmed
for many years. In 1914 they retired and moved to West Salem, Wis., where they
are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Brocade have had four children, namely: Freda,
now Mrs. William Piske of Osseo, Wis.; Emma, now Mrs. Frank Grebner; Dora, who
married Ernest Rhoades and resides at Barre Mills; and William, who died Sept.
9, 1913. By her first husband, Olaus Peterson, Mrs. Grebner had 3 children:
Henrietta, born Sept. 15, 1892; now Mrs. Henry Severson; Gilbert, born March
31, 1902, and Esther, born April 27, 1905, who is clerk in Morrison's drug
store at Barron.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 484.