BIOGRAPHIES: Valentine KURSCHNER #1, Prairie Farm Twp., Barron County, WI

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Valentine Kurschner, a respected citizen of Section 35, was born in Germany,
May 12, 1865, the son of Martin and Anna (Kallenbach) Kurschner, who brought
him to Dane County, this state, in 1866, and to this township in 1869. He 
was reared here and attended the neighborhood schools. At the age of 
seventeen he first went into the woods. Thereafter he worked for eighteen 
winters in logging camps and for sixteen springs on the river drives. After 
his marriage in 1894, he purchased 80 acres owned by his father in Section 
35. This was all wild land covered with heavy timber. He cleared up the 
land, erected buildings, and has developed a good farm. He carries on 
general farming and dairying, and has a good herd of Holstein cattle, some 
good swine, and graded Belgian horses. As the father of children, he is 
interested in education, and has served for some nine years as a member of 
the school board. He stands well with all who know him and is well liked 
throughout the community. Mr. Kurschner was married March 31, 1894, to Anna 
Mary Christine Ranft, who was born in Saxony, Germany, June 22, 1873, 
daughter of David and Louisa (Zapf) Ranft, who brought her to this country 
when she was ten years old, and settled in Dunn County, this state, where 
they located on wild land, erected a log cabin, and in time developed a 
good farm. The father died Aug. 8, 1904, and the mother, June 28, 1899. Mr. 
and Mrs. Kurschner have had seven children: Edna, the wife of William 
Hammer, of Turtle Lake; Blanche, May; Florence, who taught for a while and 
was married Sept. 12, 1921, to Roy Schlough, of Sheridan Township, Dunn 
County; Helen, Clarence; and Eldora, the wife of Joseph Eliason, of 
Ridgeland, Dunn County.


--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 608-609.