BIOGRAPHIES:  William H. WEBER, Eau Galle, Dunn Co., WI

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William H. Weber, a substantial farmer in the town of Eau Galle, was born 
on his parents' farm in Section 23, this town, on Aug. 20, 1866, son of 
Jacob and Mary (Tison) Weber.  The father was a native of Germany, the 
mother being of Scotch-Irish extraction.  It was in 1863 that they came to 
Dunn County, Wisconsin, settling in the town of Eau Galle, where Jacob Weber 
bought 120 acres in Section 23, a wild tract heavily covered with timber.  
There, having made a clearing, he built a log house and log barns and began 
the arduous task of developing a farm, which, in spite of his early death on 
March 24, 1878, he accomplished.  His wife continued to reside on the farm 
until her death in March, 1910.  They had five children:  Bernard, deceased; 
Sarah, deceased; William H., subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, deceased; and 
Joseph, who formerly for 22 years conducted the Bank of Durand and is now in 
the coal business in that city.  William H. Weber as a boy attended school in 
what was known as the Weber settlement.  He was under 12 years of age when 
his father died, and for the next eight years or so he remained on the home 
farm, assisting his mother.  Then, starting out for himself, he went to Pierce 
County, where for the next four years he conducted rented farms.  At the end 
of that period he returned to the town of Eau Galle and bought a farm of 120 
acres of good, fertile land and has been brought to a high state of 
cultivation by him.  He has remodeled the house and installed in it a furnace 
for heating and a water supply.  In 1915 he put up a fine silo and in the 
following year a large barn of 40 x 80 feet in ground plan, provided with a 
full basement.  His herd of cattle are Guernseys and include a pure bred sire, 
while he has also a good pen of Poland-China hogs.  Aside from his personal 
business, he is treasurer of Joint School District No. 1, embracing the towns 
of Dunn and Eau Galle in Dunn County, and the town of Waubeek in Pepin County.  
Mr. Weber was married March 24, 1887, to Annie Samuel, who was born in Germany, 
Jan. 18, 1871, and came to the United States when ten years old with her 
parents, Herman and Henrietta (Ditman) Samuel.  Seven years later the family 
came to Pierce County, settling on the farm on which the parents are still 
living.  Mr. and Mrs. Weber have been the parents of nine children, Ida, Anna, 
Herman, Clara, Elizabeth, Oscar, Henry, Ella and Grace, a further record of 
whom is as follows:  Ida, born May 19, 1889, is now Mrs. Fred Schaefer of the 
town of Eau Galle and the mother of five children, Ethel, Clarence, Grace, 
Lawrence and Agnes.  Anna, born March 5, 1891, is the wife of Charles Hofacker 
of the town of Eau Galle and the mother of three children, Raymond, Hester and 
Josephine.  Herman, born Nov. 13, 1892, now farming in the town of Weston, 
married Nina Yourell and has three children, Mabel, Dorothy and Darrell.  Clara, 
born March 16, 1895, is the wife of Ernest Reckin of Black River Falls, where 
he is engaged in the oil business; she has one child, Madeline.  Elizabeth, born 
Aug. 7, 1898, now Mrs. Asa Styer of the town of Weston, has two children, Raymond 
and Anna.  Oscar, born Sept. 11, 1899, now conducting the home farm, married Anna 
Weber and they have one child, James.  Henry, born July 8, 1905, and Ella, born 
June 12, 1910, are both residing on the home farm.  Grace died in infancy.  The 
Weber family are members of the Catholic church and Mr. Weber belongs to the 
Catholic Knights and the Modern Woodmen of America.

-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin, 1925", page 739

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