BIOGRAPHIES:  Orval G. WERTS, Sumner Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  4 June 2004
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Orval G. Werts, joint owner with his father of the Moose Ear Ranch in
Sumner Township, was born at Lucas County, Iowa, Oct. 7, 1885, the son of
John Quincy and Melvina (Davis) Werts. He received an excellent education
in the public schools, and studied agriculture and kindred subjects at the
Ames Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. After his marriage he continued
farming a while in Iowa. In 1911 he went to Wyoming and farmed in Park
County. In 1914 he joined his father in their present enterprise. He is an
energetic man of more than usual ability, well fitted by nature, education,
training and experience to cope with the problems arising from the conduct
of an 800 acre ranch. He has every detail of the extensive activities at
his finger tips, he has proven himself of unusually sound judgment, and has
well deserved the measure of success which has already been his, and is on
the highway to still wider prosperity and usefulness. Mr. Werts was married
June 3, 1908, in Lucas County, Iowa, to Eva Marie Curtis, who was born in
that county on March 19, 1888, the daughter of William and Mary Curtis,
natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Werts have three sturdy children, Orval Glen,
Jr., Mary Melvina and Herbert Aubrey.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 812-813.

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