BIOGRAPHIES:  Otto MAACK, 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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Otto Maack, a prosperous farmer who owns a modern place on the outskirts
of the city of Barron, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, May 13, 1882, son
of Carl and Caroline (Rubow) Maack, who came to America in 1883, located
near Green Bay, Wis., where the father found railroad employment for seven
years, and in 1890 came to Barron County, bought 80 acres of wild land in
Stanfold Township, erected buildings, cleared the land, and there lived
until 1913, when they retired to Rice Lake, this county, where the father
died Jan. 17, 1916, and the mother Dec. 11, 1919. In the family there were
three children, besides Otto: Lena, now Mrs. John Smittke, of Rice Lake;
Augusta, now Mrs. William Brandenburg, of Hudson, Wis., and Melvina,
deceased. Otto Maack was reared in Brown County and Barron County. As a
young man he purchased 80 acres adjoining the home farm in Stanfold
Township. In 1913 he purchased the home farm and continued to operate both
places for some years, making many improvements on the home place. Later he
sold the home farm, and in 1917 he purchased 120 acres on the outskirts of
Barron City, turning in his 80 acres in Stanfold Township as part payment.
The Barron farm was already well improved with a good home and other
buildings, but Mr. Maack has further modernized it by erecting two good
tool sheds, a poultry house and a milk house. One hundred acres are under
cultivation, the equipment which is of the best includes a Fordson tractor,
and the herd is of a good grade of Guernsey cattle. Mr. Maack keeps
thoroughly up- to-date and is conducting his operations along the latest
approved lines. He was married Nov. 20, 1909, to Evelyn L. Rowland,
daughter of John and Rene Rowland, of Barron Township, born in Cattaraugus
County, New York, Sept. 12, 1889, and brought to Barron County by her
parents in the early nineties. Mrs. Maack has one brother, Carl, of
Stanfold Township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Maack have three children:
Lineus, born March 29, 1912; Merlyn, born Feb. 3, 1914, and Florence, born
Jan. 17, 1916.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 148.


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