BIOGRAPHIES:  Joseph E. LIBERING, Barron, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  3 January 2004
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Joseph E. Libering, machinist, Barron, was born at Hamberg, Iowa, April
19, 1873, son of George and Laura (Dendurent) Libering. The father, a
veteran of the Civil War, died in Arkansas in 1914, after which the mother
came to Barron and made her home with her son, Joseph E., until her death
Feb. 29, 1919. Joseph E. left school at the age of twelve years and has
since made his own way in the world. For six years he worked as a farm
helper, and at the age of eighteen started to learn the carpenter’s trade.
Later he also learned the cabinet-making trade. The year 1900 found him in
Arkansas. The following year he went to Kansas, but in 1904 returned to
Arkansas and became bridge carpenter for the San Francisco Railroad Co. In
this employ he was seriously injured. After his recovery he decided to come
to Barron City, where he arrived Aug. 26, 1905, and where he has since been
employed as a machinist. On Jan. 27, 1914, he had the misfortune to lose
all his possessions in a fire, but undaunted by this disaster he has forged
ahead once more. He has a comfortable home and his work is much in demand.
For one year, 1914 to 1915, he served as chairman of the school board of
Bear Lake Township. His fraternal relations are with the Mutual Aid Union.
Mr. Libering was married May 6, 1901, to Mary Ripley, and they have four
children: Frank Earl, born in Williamsburg, Kan., May 14, 1903; Walter Ray,
born at Montana, Ark., March 14, 1905; Henry T., born at Silver Lake, this
county, Dec. 27, 1906, and Leslie M., born at Cumberland, in this county,
Sept. 19, 1909.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 123-124.


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