Biographies:  Reinhold LIEBAU, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Reinhold Liebau was born August 16, 1848, on his father's farm at Koerlitz, 
a small village in the kingdom of Saxony, Germany.  He received his only 
education in the common school of that little village, lost his parents 
when 18 years old, served three years in the Germany army and fought in 
the war between France and Germany in 1870-71.  For a number of years he 
lived in several German cities as a musician and working at several other 
trades, when he decided to go back on the farm.  In 1887 he came to this 
country and lived in the city of Eau Claire.  He is at present the secretary 
of the Eau Claire county branch of the "National German-American Alliance 
of the United States of America."  He also is a member of the German singing
society, "Germania," and at present the secretary and musical leader of 
that society.  In public he served as school commissioner, road commissioner, 
town supervisor, town clerk and county supervisor.  For six years he served 
as secretary of the farmers' American Society of Equity.  In 1873 he married 
Miss Marie Anna Uhlisch, who was born October 14, 1850, at Dresden, Germany.  
They had six children, of whom four are living.  Mrs. Liebau died October 8, 
1908.  Their son, Paul, lives in the city of Eau Claire, where he follows 
the profession of a musician and piano tuner and music teacher.  He was born 
January 30, 1884, at Bautzen, Germany; came with his parents to this country 
and lived with them on the farm.  In 1901 he joined a band in the city of 
Eau Claire and is at present the leader of the Wisconsin State Band of that 
city.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 572.