Henry Wrage Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Ellenboro, Biographical Sketches, Page 1015 

HENRY WRAGE, wagon-maker; P. O. Ellenboro; was born in Germany in 1825; came to 
America in 1852; remained a short time in Chicago; then to Galena; then in 1857 
to Grant Co., Wis.; learned his trade in the old country; was also in the army 
in the old country, in the war between Denmark and Germany. His wife, Gertrude 
Otten, who was born in Germany, came to America in 1850; married in 1854; they 
have five children - Emma, Henry, John B., Harry W. and Augustus. In religion, 
he was raised a Catholic, his wife Lutheran. He owns 10 acres near the village, 
with good house; also, 120 acres in Secs. 14 and 13, Ellenboro.