BIOGRAPHIES: Joseph MEIXNER, Eau Galle, 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 02 September 2003 ************************************************************************ Joseph Meixner, for 40 years a respected citizen of the town of Eau Galle, was born in Austria, Feb. 9, 1863. It was in 1881 that he came to the United States, settling in Arkansaw, Pepin County, Wis. In 1884 he began farming in Dunn County, buying 80 acres of wild land in Section 32, town of Eau Galle, which he started to build up into a farm, having to make a clearing whereon to erect his first house and barn. During his early years on the place he earned money for living expenses by doing carpenter work. He had since developed his farm to good advantage and is still living on it engaged in general agriculture. He is a stockholder in the Arkansaw Cooperative Creamery. Mr. Meixner was married Nov. 11, 1884, to Catherine Pericol, who was born in Eau Galle, Oct. 26, 1865. He and his wife are the parents of seven children: Anna, who married Benjamin F. Taylor whom she survives; Matilda, who is the wife of Henry Yourell of Saskatchewan, Canada; Minnie, now Mrs. Frank Kaufman of the town of Eau Galle; Charles, on the home farm; Ernest, conducting the home farm; George, of St. Paul, and Clarence, of Maiden Rock. The members of the family are Catholic in religion. -Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin, 1925", page 547 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm