Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Kerpen, Nicholas 
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NICHOLAS KERPEN is a native of Prussia, and came to America in 1861. Sept. 21, 
1861, he enlisted at Winona, Minn., in the first company of cavalry raised in 
that State, and acted as body-guard for Gen. Curtis for nearly a year. In 
1862, they were assigned to the 5th Iowa V. I., and remained in the serice 
till the 16th day of May, 1866. He was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson in 
1863, paroled on the battle-field, and exchanged about a month after. He came 
to La Crosse in 1873, and has been engaged in buying wheat and keeping saloon 
since then. He was married in Bangon, La Crosse, Co., Wis., in the fall of 
1866, to Miss Louisa Walker, and has six children, as follows: Amelia, 
Adaline, Frank, Herman, Louis and Isabell.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 767 - 768.

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