BIOGRAPHIES:  Henry ANSMUN, Elk Mound, Dunn County, WI

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Henry Ansmun, farmer and merchant, P. O. Elk Mound, Dunn county, was born 
in Germany, October 20, 1836, and is a son of John H. and Anna M. (Wiegand) 
Ansmun, who were millers in Germany, and immigrated to America in 1848.  
They first settled in Venango county, Pa., now Forest county, where they 
followed farming until 1860, when they came to Dunn county, Wis., and have 
since made their home with their children.  Our subject was the third boy of 
their seven children, and at the age of twenty-one commenced lumbering on a 
tributary of the Allegheny river, at which occupation he was employed for 
nine years.  He then came west to Dunn county, and went to work for the 
Knapp, Stout Lumber Co., with whom he remained for a year, then commenced 
farming near Elk Mound, and was actively engaged in that business until 1878, 
when he retired from farming actively, and went into the mercantile business 
at the station of Elk Mound, where he has been quite successful.  In politics 
Mr. Ansmun is a republican, and in 1878 was appointed postmaster under 
President Hayes' administration, which position he has held ever since, with 
the exception of the time when President Cleveland was in office.  In 1878 he 
was also elected a member of the assembly for Dunn county.  He has held the 
offices of chairman of the town board, county commissioner and treasurer, 
besides nearly every office in the gift of the town.  August 4, 1855, he 
married Martha E. Sipple of Pennsylvania, and to them have been born eleven 
children, all living:  Catharina E., married to Jacob Weber;  Martha E., 
John F. married married Catherine Weber; Henry W., married Caroline Weber; 
Mina, Edward A., Magdalena, Emma C., Alfred B. and Benjamin A., twins, and 
Laura.  Mr. Ansmun and his entire family are members of the Evangelcal church.

-- Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 876