Biography:  Conrad NAPP, Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin

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Excerpted from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of 
Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin (J. H. Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1901, pp. 222-223)

Conrad Napp (deceased) was an early settler in Grant county, having 
come here in 1846. He was born in Werlau, Prussia, Oct. 15, 1829, a 
member of a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. The 
father of these, also named Conrad, brought his family to the United 
States in the year named above, and settled on an improved farm at 
Hurricane, in Lancaster township, Grant Co., Wis.  There the parents 
passed the remainder of their lives, the mother passing away Nov. 27, 
1872, and the father march 3, 1885.  The surviving members of the 
family are Jasper and Anton.  Mrs. Sophia Gelbach died Jan. 24, 1900; 
Philip died in April, 1900; Mrs. Mary Ann Pabst, William, Charles, 
Mrs. Catherine Hain and Conrad are also deceased.

Conrad Napp remained with his parents until his marriage, Feb. 28, 
1849, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Bruick, a daughter of Philip and 
Christiana Bruick, and born in the same town in Prussia in which her 
husband had his birth.  She came to the United States in 1848, in 
company with her parents, whose family comprised Catherine, who 
afterward became Mrs. Henry Hall and died several years ago; Ann 
Elizabeth, Mrs. Napp; and Christiana, who became Mrs. Will Belscamper, 
and died in February, 1883.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Napp settled on forty acres 
of timber land near Hurricane.  This tract Mr. Napp partially cleared 
up, but he also gave a great deal of his attention to lead mining.  
About six years later he sold his place and rented his father's farm, 
on which he lived three years, and then bought a farm in the township 
of Waterloo.  Three years later he lost his house by fire, and soon 
afterward sold the land, purchasing a farm two miles from Lancaster, 
owned by John Schreiner.  Here he again lost his house by fire, but 
rebuilt, and traded the place for a farm in Fennimore township, 
adjoining a tract of eighty acres which he had purchased some time 
previously.  His farm now comprised 240 acres.  Later he added another 
tact, of eighty acres.  When Mr. Napp became well advanced in years, 
he sold his entire estate, of 320 acres, to his eldest son, but 120 
acres are still in the possession of the family.  In 1885 Mr. Napp 
retired to a pleasant home in Lancaster, where his widow and their 
daughter Mattie still reside, and where he passed away Aug. 31, 1893.  
He was greatly respected as a citizen, and a Christian gentleman, he 
and wife having been members of the Presbyterian Church for many 
years.  When he was called away Grant county suffered a severe loss, 
as he had ever been a most public-spirited man, and ready at all times 
to contribute of his means to the promotion of the welfare of his 
township and county.

Mr. Napp, at his death, left his widow with nine children, viz.: 
Elizabeth, Mary Margaret, Conrad, Charles Philip, Caroline, Emma, John 
Calvin, David and Mattie.  Mrs. Napp, as was her husband, is held in 
the highest esteem by all who knew her or who knew him.