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

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Henry Paff, for many years a respected citizen and successful farmer in the 
town of Elk Mound, but now deceased, was born in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 
Dec. 2, 1850.  He was reared and educated there and remained until the early 
70's, when he came to Elk Mound, Dunn County, and for a short time did farm 
labor here.  Having resolved to stay, he bought 160 acre of wild land in 
Section 24, town of Elk Mound and began the development of a farm, an 
arduous task, but which in time he successfully accomplished.  He was a 
stockholder in the Elk Mound Cooperative Creamery, and was a man of 
progressive and reliable character, much esteemed by his neighbors, his 
death, which occurred April 3, 1903, being regarded as a distinct loss to 
the community.  Henry Paff was married Dec. 18, 1876, in Spring Brook, to 
Lucinda Goetz, who was born in Eau Claire, Wis., Aug. 13, 1861, daughter of 
Adam and Helen (Doering) Goetz.  To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paff were born 12 
children, namely:  Mary, now Mrs. Charles Orth of Eau Claire County, and the 
mother of three children, Hazel, Harry and Ona; Lena (first), Emma and Lena 
(second), all three of whom died in infancy; Fred, a well known farmer in the 
town of Spring Brook; Amelia, now residing in St. Paul; Laura, wife of Ed 
Webert of the town of Elk Mound and the mother of seven children, Angeline, 
James, Rachel, Virginia, Lloyd, Marie and Norma; Elsie, at home; Louis, of 
Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Adeline, wife of Rev. Fred Stillwell of Chicago and the 
mother of one child, Ruth M.; Arthur, professor of science in the high school 
at Bloomer, Wis., and Henrietta, now deceased.  Adam and Helen (Doering) 
Goetz, the parents of Mrs. Henry Paff, were natives of Germany who came to 
the United States about 1858, settling first in Eau Claire, Wis., where they 
lived for ten years, and then coming to Dunn County and buying a tract of 
wild land in Section 1, town of Spring Brook, which Mr. Goetz gradually 
developed into a good farm.  The children in the Goetz family were as follows:  
Mary, now deceased, who was the wife of Fred Volendorf; Lucinda, who became 
the wife of Henry Paff and is now a widow residing with her daughter, Mrs. 
Charles Orth of Eau Claire County; Henry and Louis, deceased; Lena, deceased, 
who was the wife of Jacob Paff, and Catherine, who died in infancy.

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