BIOGRAPHIES: Robert KRUGER, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Robert Kruger, for some years a farmer in section 24, Stanley Township, and
section 19, Sumner Township, now living retired at Rice Lake, was born in
Germany Oct. 18, 1827, and was there reared and educated. There he married
Henrietta Koeler, and had one child, Fernand. In the late fifties they
started with this child for America. The voyage was a long and tedious one
aboard a sailing vessel, and before America was reached the child died and
was buried at sea. The bereaved couple found their way to Racine, this
state, and there he was employed at his trade as a wagon maker. In 1865 he
enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the
remainder of the conflict. Upon his return he took 20 acres of wild land in
Racine County and began to clear it up. Later he added 35 acres more. He
had but little to work with, but by perseverance and industry managed to
get a yoke of oxen and a cow. From there he went to Beaver Dam in Dodge
County, this state. In the middle eighties he came to Barron County and
secured 160 acres on the town line between Sumner and Stanley. A shanty had
been erected and a part of the land cleared. He started in with a will and
developed a good place, with suitable buildings, stock and equipment. With
advancing years he gradually left the work in the hands of his son, Julius,
and after his wife's death in 1904 he moved to Rice Lake, where be lived
until his death Feb. 6, 1921, at the good old age of 94 years. He was a
substantial God-fearing man, and was prominent in the German Evangelical
Church, in which he held various offices. He was well regarded by all who
knew him and was venerated for his worth and for what he had accomplished
in life. Mr. and Mrs. Kruger were the parents of seven children: Fernand,
who died at sea; and Julius, Gust, Otto, Anna, Emma and Amelia, who were
born in this state.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 573.