BIOGRAPHIES:  Frank William F. ROSE, Elk Mound Township, Dunn Co., WI

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Frank William F. ROSE, a prominent farmer of the town of Elk Mound,
whose record of achievement along agricultural lines is well worth
attention, was born in Brandenburg, Germany, Nov. 4, 1855, son of
Frederick and Caroline (Miller) Rose.  Both parents died in Germany,
where Frank spent the first 26 or 27 years of his life, acquiring a
practical education in his boyhood by attending a good school.  It
was in 1882 that he came to the United States and to Menomonie, Wis.,
where he entered the employ of Capt. William Wilson, for whom he
worked two years.  After that he entered the employ of the Knapp,
Stout & Co. Company, in whose mill he worked four years.  The next
six years were spent as an employee in the brick yard of Frank Kelly.
In 1894 Mr. Rose began farming, coming to the town of Elk Mound,
where he bought 160 acres of partly cleared land in Sections 6, 7 and
8.  The buildings were all small and consisted of a house, barn and
granary.  Mr. Rose remodeled and enlarged the house and has erected a
barn 32 x 60 feet, three machine sheds, a corn crib, pig house, milk
house, garage and garnary, all of which buildings he has kept in good
condition.  He has also added 80 acres to his original tract of 160
acres, his farm now containing 240 acres, and a large part of this he
has developed and placed in a state of cultivation.  At the present
time his herd of Holstein cattle number 28 head and contains a pure
bred sire.  He is a stockholder in the Rusk Cooperative Creamery, and
in addition to his dairying business he successfully raises Duroc-
Jersey hogs.  Mr. Rose was married June 21, 1884, to Fredericka
Denhoff, who was born in Brandenberg, Germany, April 10, 1858, and
who came to America in 1880, locating in Menomonie.  Mr. and Mrs.
Rose are the parents of seven children, as follows:  Ida, now Mrs.
Wm. Wieman, living on a part of the home farm, and the mother of
three children, Margaret, Angie and Irene, of whom Margaret is now
Mrs. Walter Maves of Elk Mound and Angie is Mrs. John Ballard of St.
Paul; William, a farmer of the town of Elk Mound, who married Emma
Stobb and has four children, William, Marvel, Alma and Etta; Hattie,
wife of Albert Mittelstadt of Rusk, who operates a cream route, their
children being Myrtle, Roy, Mabel and Iris; Alma, who is Mrs. Robert
Denhoff of the town of Red Cedar, and has one child, Gladys; Hugo,
working on the home farm; and Richard and Herman, also living at home
with their parents.  The religious faith of the family is that of the
Lutheran Church, and socially they are held in high regard.         
                 
 
-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page
811

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