BIOGRAPHIES: August VOELKER, Stanley Township, Barron County, WI

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August Voelker, an industrious and hard working farmer, who owns a good
place of 160 acres in Section 10, Stanley Township, was born in Germany,
May 22, 1865, and was there educated and grew to adult years. He came to
the United States in 1892, and landed at Baltimore, Maryland. From there he
came to Rice Lake. With headquarters here for about ten years, he worked
for the Rice Lake Lumber Co., for the railroad, and on farms. In 1909 he
bought 80 acres of land in Section 9, Stanley Township. Here he started to
develop a good farm. When he bought the tract it was partly cleared and
some old buildings were standing on it. Five years later he bought his
present farm of 160 acres in Section 10. Here he has erected a new set of
buildings and continued the improvements. He has ample land for successful
crop raising and for the pasturing of his good herd of Holstein cattle. He
and his wife are loyal supporters of the German Lutheran Church, and he has
been one of the officials of that body. Mr. Voelker was married Jan. 7,
1896, to Otillie Heger, who was born in Germany, Aug. 31, 1870, and came to
America in 1891. This union has been blessed with six children: Hattie,
Emil, Ella and Walter at home, and August and Anna, deceased. Hattie
married Robert Schultz, who lives with the family. Anna married John Quick,
and died Feb. 24, 1920, leaving one son, Clarence, born Feb. 19, 1920, who
is now the sunshine of his grandparents' home.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 753.