BIOGRAPHIES: Gottlieb J. SPIELMANN, Prairie Farm Township, Barron County, WI

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Gottlieb J. Spielmann, a worthy early settler of section 36, Prairie Farm
Township, was born in Germany, Aug. 29, 1819, and there attended the
government schools and grew to manhood. As a young man he married Caroline
Betcher, who was born in Germany, July 22, 1824. They brought their family to
America and settled on section 36, Prairie Farm Township, this county. This
was all wild land. He put up a log house and started to develop a farm in the
wilderness. He was a man of devout faith and opened his little cabin to
meetings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. He assisted in organizing the
congregation, was one of its early members and contributed toward the erection
of the first church. By working early and late, and practicing habits of
self-denial and frugality, he started a good farm, in which he took much
pride. He was respected throughout the community, and his death on April 1,
1901, was sincerely mourned. His good wife died Sept. 19, 1913. They were the
parents of four children, named, respectively, Charlie, Hannah, Mary and Emma.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 630.