BIOGRAPHIES:  Lester H. UREN, Mikana, Barron Co., WI

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Lester H. Uren, formerly a general merchant with a store at Mikana, Cedar
Lake  Township,  but  now salesman for the Pine Tree Milking Machine Co. of
Minneapolis,  was born June 2, 1889 at Blanchardville, Wis., son of Blakely
and  Celia (Paynter) Uren, who are now farming near Angus, Wis. He attended
the  graded  and high schools of his native place and in 1911 was graduated
from  the Barnes Anatomy School at Chicago, Ill. Subsequently he worked for
a while in Chicago and then returned home. Then he went to Spooner, in this
state,  and  for  a  few  months  was employed in charge of the undertaking
parlors  of  A. D. Burnett. From 1912 to 1914 he was a furniture dealer and
funeral  director  at Osceola, this state. After this, for a short time, he
had  a  similar  establishment  at  Postville,  Iowa.  In  1915 he opened a
mercantile  business  at Mikana in partnership with his brother, Warren and
in  1918 became sole owner. In that year he erected a frame store building,
which  is  one  of  the  features  of the business street of the hamlet. In
addition  to  the general mercantile business he took the agency for Barron
County for the Pine Tree Milking Machine Co. of Minneapolis. To the sale of
this  machine  he  is  now  devoting  his  attention. His business holdings
include stock in the Mikana Cheese Co. Mr. Uren is a good business man, has
built   up  a  good  trade,  and  stands  high  throughout  the  community.
Fraternally he is a member of Osceola Lodge, No. 134 A. F. & A. M. Mr. Uren
was  married May 14, 1913 at Osceola, Wis., to Ella Ames, daughter of E. B.
and  Christina  (Nelson)  Ames,  the  former  of whom died in 1910, and the
latter  of  whom  now  lives  in  Minneapolis.  Mr.  and Mrs. Uren have two
children: Lester Ames, Oct. 13, 1914, and Dorris Lucille, Sept. 11, 1920.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 796.


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