BIOGRAPHIES:  Frederick WAGENBACH, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  9 January 2004
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Frederick Wagenbach was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., Oct. 10, 1879, son of
Christ and Ida E. (Haes) Wagenbach. He was brought to Barron County when he
was six years of age and was here reared and educated. At the age of 18, in
1898, he went to North Dakota. From there he found his way to Montana, and
homestead 160 acres on the Fort Buford Military Reservation, in Yellowstone
Valley. In the spring of 1905 he came back to the home farm and operated it
for three years. Then he started West again, and while looking over the
country, secured a homestead of 160 acres near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
Canada. In 1913 he again returned to Barron County, and after operating the
home place for a while, purchased it in 1915. It is a rich farm of 160
acres, three and a half miles north of Barron, well improved with good
buildings, with good tools, implements and machinery, including a modern
tractor. Here he successfully carries on general farming and specializes in
tobacco growing and dairying, having a good herd of high grade Durham
cattle. His financial interests include stock in the Barron Co-operative
Creamery, the Consumers’ Stores in Barron and Rice Lake and the Terminal
Packing Co. at Newport, Minn. Fraternally, he is a member of the Beavers.
Mr. Wagenbach was married Sept. 23, 1920, to Henrietta J. Kolb, daughter of
Ernest and Lena A. Kolb, of Barron Township. Mrs. Wagenbach was born Sept.
22, 1889. The family faith is that of the German Lutheran Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 145-146.

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