BIOGRAPHIES: Frank OSTERKAMP, Arland Township, Barron County, WI

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Frank Osterkamp, who established a good farm in Arland Township, which he
cultivated until his death on Feb. 2, 1915, was born in Germany, Aug. 28,
1846. After leaving school he learned the baker's trade, which he followed
in his native land until 1889, during 14 years of that time operating a
bakery for himself. In 1889 he came to America, landing at Baltimore,
whence he went on to southern Nebraska, where he worked as a section hand
for two years. For three years subsequently he operated a dray line and for
five years was engaged in farm work. In 1904 he came to Barron County and
bought 320 acres of wild land in section 6, Arland Township, which he began
to improve and where he was industriously engaged in mixed farming and
dairying for the rest of his life. He was for three years a director on the
school board of district No. 3. Fraternally, he was affiliated with Almena
Camp, M. W. A., and religiously with the German Lutheran Church. Mr.
Osterkamp was married May 17, 1877, in Germany, to Johanna Hoff, who was
born April 28, 1846. To him and his wife eight children were born, of whom
four are now living, namely: Aggie, residing in Lincoln, Nebr.; John A., a
farmer; Anna, at home, and Fritz D., who is a farmer. Those deceased are
William, Dora, Eilt and Johanna.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 912.