BIOGRAPHIES: J.B. MOUSEL Town of Spring Brook, Dunn Co., WI

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J.B. MOUSEL, proprietor of the Twin Hill Guernsey Farm in
the town of Spring Brook, who has been a resident of Dunn
County for many years, was born in Luxemburg, Jan. 24, 1868,
son of John and Marie (Gasper) Mousel.  The parents, also
natives of that European duchy, spent their entire lives
there the mother dying first in 1897 and the father on April
15, 1906.  The subject of this sketch acquired an ordinary
school education, after which he learned the carpenter's
trade, which he followed in his native land for three years.
In 1893 he came to the United States with his brother
Nicholas and two sisters, Mary and Anna.  Two other
brothers, John and Michael, were then living in the town of
Elk Mound, Dunn County, Wis., having come to this country
some time previously, and the new immigrants here joined
them.  Nicholas, John and Michael began farming, buying 120
acres of land in Section 3, town of Spring Brook, our
subject, J. B., for five years doing farm labor in the town
of Spring Brook and Elk Mound.  At the end of that time he
bought out his brothers and the 120-acre farm became his and
has since remained so, it being his present home.  He has,
however, greatly improved it, doing practically all the
carpenter work himself on the buildings, of which he has a
very good set.  The house and barn are modern and supplied
with all necessary conveniences and equipment, including
electric lights, the power for the latter being obtained
from the Elk Mound branch of the Northern States Power
Company.  The farm is well stocked with high grade Guernsey
cattle, with a pure bred sire in the herd, and Mr. Mousel is
a stockholder in the Elk Mound Cooperative Creamery.  For
several years he served as treasurer of his school district
and he has always taken a keen and helpful interest in the
welfare and progress of the community in which he lives.
Mr. Mousel was married Sept. 27, 1898, in the city of
Menomonie, to Catherine Schrantz, who was born April 5,
1879, at Random Lake, Wis., daughter of Nicholas and Marie
(Schneider) Schrantz.  The children of this marriage are:
Nicholas J., born June 5, 1900; Edward N., born Feb. 1,
1902, who was killed while working in the Schanon sawmill on
March 19, 1919; a babe born Aug. 29, 1906, that died in
infancy; Mildred, born Feb. 2, 1908, and now attending high
school in Elk Mound; and Raymond, born Jan. 19, 1912.  The
family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic congregation at
Elk Mound.