BIOGRAPHIES:  August ABRAHAM, Colfax, Dunn Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Dan Dietsche <ddietsche@interlaken.com>  10 January 2005
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August Abraham, a retired farmer living in the village of Colfax,
was born in Germany, March 26, 1864, son of Albert and Anna
(Kedrowski) Abraham. Both parents are deceased, the mother having
died when the subject of this sketch was three years old. August in
boyhood attended the public schools of his native land and for a
short time subsequently worked in a tailoring establishment. In 1881
Henry Beyrer, then living in the town of Grant, Dunn County, Wis.,
sent him a ticket good for his passage to America and accordingly he
came. During his first year here he worked for Mr. Beyrer on his farm
on Poplar Creek, in order to pay the debt he owed him. After that for
several years he worked out on farms in the town of Grant. Then he
started working farms on shares and this system proved so
satisfactory for him that he subsequently continued it, never owning
a farm of his own, but operating them on shares for some 25 years. He
knew the business thoroughly and was industrious and economical,
which accounted for his success. In 1910 Mr. Abraham gave up regular
farming and moved to Colfax, where he bought a good stone house which
he and his wife occupy. Though he may be regarded as retired, he does
some market gardening every summer in the town of Grant to have
something to occupy his mind and furnish him with mild exercise. For
many years formerly he served his town as road overseer. Mr. Abraham
was married Nov. 23, 1887, to Mrs. Bertha Van Woert, whose maiden
name was Bertha Beyrer, she being a sister of the Henry Beyrer who
advanced him the price of his passage to America. She was born in
Germany, March 5, 1848, and came to America in 1874, locating in the
town of Grant. She was first married to Thomas Van Woert, who met an
untimely death in 1876. By him she had one child, Martha, now Mrs.
Theodore Tietz, residing in Colfax. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham are members
and liberal supporters of the German Lutheran Church.
 
--Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925,"
page 856

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