BIOGRAPHIES:   Oswald KURSCHNER, Prairie Farm, Barron County, WI

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Oswald Kurschner, early storekeeper in Prairie Farm hamlet, was born in
Germany and there married Margaret Kallenbach. They came to America in the
early eighties and settled at Prairie Farm, this county, where he opened a
store which he conducted until his death in July, 1898. After his death, his
wife conducted the store two years, and then sold out and went to Vanceburg,
Wis., where she opened a store and was appointed postmistress. In 1900 she
married William Roney and came to Barron, where she died. By her first
marriage she had four children: Laura, Ida, Alma and Esther Kurschner; and 
by her second marriage she had three children: Blanche, Edward and Clarence
Roney.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 977-978.