Lacrosse-Milwaukee County WI Archives Biographies.....Sprain, Fredrick 1825 - 
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FREDRICK SPRAIN, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Barre Mills; one of the most prominent 
men of the town of Barre; was born in Germany in 1825; in 1845, he, in company 
with his brother Henry, came to the United States, and settled at Milwaukee, 
where he worked on the farm about eight years. In 1851, he married Dorothea 
Miller, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Miller; born in Germany in 1832; in 
1853, he moved his family with an ox team to La Crosse Co., where he purchased 
80 acres of land on Sec. 23, on which place he lived about seventeen years, 
during which time he purchased more land; in 1870, he moved on his present 
farm, which is in Secs. 22 and 27, where he has built a fine brick house and 
good barns. Mr. S. now owns 600 acres of land. He has been Supervisor several 
terms. Is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Church; their 
children are Margaret, Sue, George and Dora.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 858 - 859.

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