Biographies:  Michael WEIRE, Augusta, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Michael Weire was born February 19, 1835, at Bathen, Germany.  He came to 
America in 1852 and to Eau Claire county in 1856 and took a homestead near 
Augusta.  Worked in the winter time in the lumber camps and in the summer 
time on the river up to 1862.  Then worked his farm up to 1901, at which 
time he sold the farm and bought some property in the city of Augusta, 
where he resides.  In August, 1863, he enlisted in the Thirtieth Wisconsin 
Infantry, Company I, in which he served three years and two months.  After 
that he was discharged, September 20, 1865, at Madison, Wisconsin.  He had 
six years commons school education at Bathen, Germany.  Served several terms 
as treasurer of his school district in the town of Bridge Creek.  On February 
19, 1866, he married Miss Francis Caroline Schlegelmilch, of Sauk county.  
Of their ten children six are living.


--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
pages 560 & 561