BIOGRAPHIES: Harry H. LICHTENWALNER, Barron 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. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 3 January 2004 ************************************************************************ Harry H. Lichtenwalner, now deceased, was a farmer in Section 23, Barron Township, for some five years. He was a good citizen, an excellent neighbor, and a kind and loving husband and father. Born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 6, 1869, son of James and Leanna (Hober) Lichtenwalner, he was educated in Schonerville, in his native state, and remained with his parents until about seventeen years of age, when he came to Wisconsin. He then continued in farm work, first as a helper, and then as a renter, for many years, both in Monroe and Green Counties. In 1904 he went to Richmond County., North Dakota, where he purchased 160 acres on which he erected buildings and made improvements. In the fall of 1909 he came to Barron County and purchased 60 acres in Section 23, Barron Township. In addition to the land already cleared, he cleared 10 acres more, built an addition to the barn, and erected a silo and garage. Here he conducted general farming until his death Oct. 3, 1914. After his death the son, Erwin, became manager of the place for the mother and they have further improved the place. Electric lights have been installed in the house and barns and the James system of equipment in the latter, and they are now building a dairy house to be supplied with running water. Erwin Lichtenwalner carries on general farming and makes a specialty of a fine herd of Holstein cattle with full blooded sires at its head. He is well liked throughout the community, is a stockholder in the Barron Co-operative Creamery, and is taking his share in the general affairs of the township. Harry H. Lichtenwalner was married Jan. 1, 1891, to Addie Dinges, who was born Feb. 3, 1870, one of the thirteen children of Andrew and Elizabeth (Detwiller) Dinges, who were born in Pennsylvania, came to Green County, this state, and here farmed until their deaths, Mr. Dinges dying July 10, 1891 and Mrs. Dinges April 1, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Lichtenwalner were the parents of two children: Leanna, born Nov. 14, 1891, wife of Lester Carpenter, of Barron Township, and Erwin, born Dec. 11, 1898. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 150. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm