BIOGRAPHIES:  Nicholas SCHRANTZ, Spring Brook Township, Dunn Co., WI

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Nicholas Schrantz, a retired farmer in the town of Spring Brook, residing on 
the farm on which he settled over 40 years ago, who born in the town of 
Sherman, Sheboygan County, Wis., son of John and Catherine (Molitor) Schrantz.  
The parents came to the United States from the Duchy of Luxemburg in 1847, 
locating first at Port Washington on the shore of Lake Michigan in Ozaukee 
County, Wis., but it was not long before they left that place for the farm in 
the town of Sherman, that county, on which their son Nicholas was born, and 
where they spent their remaining years.  They had 14 children, six of whom 
died in infancy, the other eight being Matthew, Susan, Nicholas, Mary and 
Margaret (twins), Julia, Katherine and John B.  Of these, Matthew, Susan, 
Margaret, Julia and Katherine are now deceased; Mary, who married Matt Molitor, 
is a widow; John B. is living in the town of Elk Mound, and Nicholas in the town 
of Spring Brook.  Nicholas Schrantz as a boy attended school in Sheboygan County 
and remained at home with his parents until 30 years of age.  Then coming to 
Dunn County, he began farming here, buying an 80-acre tract in Section 3, town 
of Spring Brook, to which he later added 40 acres.  In course of time he cleared 
some 90 acres, besides putting up a complete and substantial set of buildings.  
When he first settled on the farm, not having enough to buy a team of horses, he 
and Nicholas Mickelbrook bought a team together and helped each other in their 
first clearing work, the two farms being adjacent to each other.  All their 
grubbing was done by hand.  After conducting his farm successfully until 1902, 
Mr. Schrantz sold it to his son Michael and retired.  For a number of years he 
was a stockholder in the first creamery established in Elk Mound village and for 
many years he served as a director on the school board of his district.  Mr. 
Schrantz was married Nov. 14, 1876, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, to Marie 
Schneider, who was born in that county, Aug. 18, 1854, daughter of John and 
Susan (Gasper) Schneider.  Her parents were natives of Luxemburg who came to 
this country about 1845, spending the remainder of their lives in Sheboygan 
County, where they died with in less than three weeks of each other, Mrs. 
Schneider on April 12, 1912, and Mr. Schneider on April 29, that year.  They 
had four children:  Mary, now deceased; Michael, who is operating the old home 
farm in Sheboygan County; Marie, now Mrs. Nicholas Schrantz, and Matthew, deceased.  
To Mr. and Mrs. Schrantz five children were born, John, Katherine, Michael, Joseph 
M. and Nicholas, of whom the last mentioned is deceased.  John, born Aug. 27, 1877, 
who is a farmer in the town of Spring Brook, married Mary Kremer and has two 
children, Irwin N. and Helen M.  Katherine, born April 5, 1879, is now Mrs. J. B. 
Mousel of Spring Brook.  Michael, born Aug. 3, 1880, proprietor of the old 
homestead, married Elizabeth Dietz and has three children, Cecelia B., Andrew N. 
and Clarence A., of whom Cecelia is now Mrs. William L. Walcott of Elk Mound.  
Joseph M., born May 12, 1890, who married Anna Hurth, is a farmer in the town of 
Spring Brook.  The Schrantz family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Congregation 
at Elk Mound.

-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin, 1925", page 775 

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