BIOGRAPHIES: Alfred O. KRINGLE, Doyle Township, Barron Co., WI *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, 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. Submitted by: Vic Gulickson 8 March 2004 *********************************************************************** Alfred 0. Kringle, licensed guide and veteran of the World War, was born on a farm in Doyle Township, this county, June 26, 1893, the son of Ole and Maren (Sathra) Kringle. He was reared and educated in his native township, and was brought to Mikana at the age of fifteen. As a youth he was employed as a general store clerk in Mikana. From boyhood days he has been interested in out-door life, and he now devotes much of his time to guiding fishing and hunting parties on Cedar Lake, having received a regular license in 1918. July 23, 1918 he was inducted into the United States service and trained at Camp Grant with Company M, 343rd Inf., 86th Division. He was equipped for overseas duty at Camp Mills. He sailed Sept. 14 and landed in South Hampton, England, Sept. 22. He was in France from Oct. 19 to April 28, 1919, and from there went to Germany. He left Germany for Brest May 23, 1919, returned to the States June 10 and was discharged from Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., June 21, 1919. He now makes his home with his mother in Mikana. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 795-796. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm