Biographies:  Samuel KLEINER, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Samuel Kleiner was born in 1853, in Switzerland; came to Eau Claire and 
started a meat market.  In 1885 he bought farm land in Eau Claire and 
Chippewa counties, raised Norman horses, Cotswold sheep and Poland China 
swine.  Mr. Kleiner was one of the largest farmers of Eau Claire county and 
when he died in 1889 he owned more than a thousand acres of land.  In 1878 
he married Miss Elizabeth Accola, from Sauk county, Wis., who also came from 
German ancestors.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 567.