BIOGRAPHIES:  Albert MAVES, Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI

************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission
to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.

Submitted by:  Laura Abood <lauraabood@yahoo.com>  16 March 2004
************************************************************************

ALBERT MAVES, one of the men who achieved a success along
agricultural lines in Dunn County and is now enjoying the fruits of
his former industry as a well to do resident of Menomonie, was born
in Germany, Dec. 7, 1854, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Maves. He was
educated in his native land and in 1881 came to Dunn County,
Wisconsin, buying an improved farm of 160 acres in the town of Red
Cedar. There he remained for about 16 years engaged in agriculture.
He then sold that farm and bought a larger one--one of 400 acres in
the town of Tainter. The land had been improved but there were no
buildings on it. Mr. Maves put up a fine frame residence, also a full
basement barn of 40 x 80 feet, both buildings were needed. There he
spent some 21 years, all the time improving the place until he had
developed it into a large and splendid farm. Then in 1921 he divided
it into two farms, building another fine house and a large basement
barn of 36 x 100 feet, besides other structures. On both places he
has running water for the house and barns, and on each a Delco
electric lighting plant with all other conveniences that are either
necessary or desirable. These two farms he rents to his sons, he,
himself, having been practically retired since 1918. During his
active career on the farm he served as a member of the district
school board. Persistent industry intelligently planned made Mr.
Maves a successful man and he is now in easy circumstances able to
take his leisure in town and with his mind free from worry. He is a
stockholder in the Rusk creamery and for six years was one of its
directors. He owns a nice residence at 1009 Eighth Street. Mr. Maves
was first married in June, 1884, to Elizabeth Tyler, who was born in
the town of Spring Brook, Dunn County. She died in 1904, leaving four
children, namely: Otto, of Cedar Falls, in the town of Red Cedar; who
married Theresa Breitzman and has six children, Laona, Luverne,
Dorothy, Edna, Leonard and Arthur. William, a farmeron one of his
father's farms in the town of Tainter, who married Mary Hazen and has
three children, Evelyn, Lawrence and Violet; Wilhelmina, now Mrs.
Emil Seilke of the town of Tainter; and Martin, operating the other
farm of his father in the town of Tainter, who married Amelia Price.
Mr. Maves was married secondly in 1910 to Mrs. Augusta Borchart, who
in maidenhood was Augusta Scheel. He and his family are members of
the German Lutheran Church.

-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925,"
pages 423-424

© All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm