BIOGRAPHIES: Frank N. ROEMHILD, Prairie Farm Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, 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. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 1 May 2001 ==================================================================== Frank N. Roemhild, successful agriculturist and former educator; proprietor of the flourishing Oakdale Dairy Farm, of Prairie Farm Township chairman of the town and member of the county board; president of the Prairie Farm Telephone Co. which he assisted in organizing; president of the Oak Grove Insurance Co.; former secretary of the Prairie Farm Co-operative Creamery, which he helped to organize, and for many years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Evangelical Association Church, is one of the leading men of this part of the county. He is a native of this state, born in Dane County, Sept. 16, 1866, the son of Carl August and Eva (Mueller) Roemhild, the pioneers. He was brought to this county in 1867, and was here reared to farm pursuits. He attended the district school established by his father and also studied and read privately, thus acquiring an unusually good education. He was still a youth when he started teaching school, and he thereafter continued in this profession seventeen years in the rural schools of the county and one year in the city schools of Barron. In the meantime he continued to farm summers. After his father's death, Frank N. and his brother, Charles Henry, continued to operate the farm until 1900, when each purchased 160 acres. The subject of this sketch has developed a model place. He has a pleasant home, a barn 32 by 70 feet, with full basement, a silo, 14 by 32 feet, and other suitable buildings. The buildings are illuminated with acetylene lights. Mr. Roemhild has a fine herd of Jersey cattle, a good drove of Poland China swine, and some fine horses of the Percheron type. He is a most excellent representative of the modern, intelligent, Wisconsin farmer. As a teacher he had the happy faculty of inspiring his pupils to do their best. As a farmer he manages to get the best out of his place. As an official he is competent and efficient. He is a real leader among his fellow men,everything with which he is connected seems to prosper, and he is a useful and valued citizen. He and his wife delight in keeping open house and their home is a hospitable one. Mr. Roemhild was married Dec. 25, 1890, at Prairie Farm to Elizabeth Mueller, who was born in Hesse, Germany, June 4, 1866, and was brought to Prairie Farm Township in 1882 by her parents, Johanes and Maria Mueller. Mr. and Mrs. Roemhild have had four children. Mabel, who for eight years was a successful teacher, is the wife of George Markit, of Appleton, Wis. Clarence is dead. Herbert is attending the Northwestern College at Naperville, I11. In September, 1918, he enrolled in the S. A. T. C. there. Eva is at home. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 612-613.