BIOGRAPHIES:  Adam W. KLUG, Almena Township, Barron County, WI

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Adam W. Klug, a well known farmer of Section 26, Almena Township, has been
active in the affairs of this community for some years. He has been
president of the Farmers' Shipping Association of Almena, and president of
the Farmers' Produce Co. of Almena. He helped to organize the Midway Cheese
Co. and was its first manager. He is a stockholder in the Almena Telephone
Co. In public affairs likewise he has been prominent, and has served with
satisfaction for some time as town supervisor. He was born in Austria, Dec.
24, 1881, the son of Adam and Mary Klug, also natives of that country. The
father brought the family to America in 1891, and located in Minneapolis,
Minn., where he worked in a cooper shop for four years. The mother died
there in 1892. The father came to Barron County in 1895, and bought 110
acres in Sections 26 and 34. This land was then covered with stumps, brush
and hard timber. He put up a log house, 20 by 30 feet, and started clearing
up the farm. There he lived until his death in 1910. In the family there
were six children: Andrew, of Canada; Barbara, the wife of A. P. Sifferle,
of Minneapolis; Lena the wife of Joseph Broshofsky, of Almena; Adam W.;
Margaret, wife of John Shaupshleger, of Almena, and Mary, the deceased wife
of Joseph Nellis, of Blue Island, Ill. Adam W. was reared in Minneapolis,
and graduated from the St. Elizabeth Parochial School there. He came to
Barron County with his father in 1895, and helped his father get the place
started. In 1899 he went back to Minneapolis, and entered the employ of the
Blatz Brewing Co. In 1904 he engaged in business at Almena for four years.
Since then he has devoted his time to carrying on the home farm. He put up
a frame house, a barn, 34 by 108 feet, with full basement, and furnished
with James equipment; a tile silo, a machine shed, 22 by 30 feet; a
granary, 22 by 30 feet, and other buildings. The farm is well equipped with
tools, implements and machinery. About 80 acres are under the plow. Mr.
Klug successfully carries on general farming and dairying. He has a good
herd of Holsteins headed by a full blooded sire. His swine are of the
Poland China breed. Mr. Klug was married at St. Nicholas, Minn., on July 3,
1905, to Kate Theis, who was born at St. Nicholas, Minn., Aug. 1, 1885, the
daughter of Adam and Kate Theis, natives respectively of Minnesota and of
Baden, Germany. They farmed in Minnesota for many years, and are now in
Pasadena, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. King have seven children: Joseph, John,
William, Marie, Leo, Adam and Carl, all of whom are at home.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 378-379.