Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Frederick JENKEL of Center Township 1874-

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SUBJECT: Frederick JENKEL of Center Township 1874-
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 15, 1999
SURNAMES: JENKEL, TEPP, KUSE
SOURCE: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, Page 660, Pub. 1911


BIOGRAPHY:
Frederick JENKEL

a substantial citizen and representative farmer of Center township, is a son of John Jenkel, who came
from Germany and settled in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, as a young man and later in 1877, located in
Outagamie county, buying the present farm of Frederick Jenkel. John Jenkel followed farming during the active
years of his life, but in 1909 he retired from activities, sold his farm to his son, and settled down to spend the
remainder of his life in well-earned rest. He was married in Germany in 1870, to Katherine Tepp, who was born in
the Fatherland and died in 1909, in Center township. Frederick Jenkel was one of a family of five children, and was
born April 7,1874, in Germany, his father coming to this country in 1875. He here secured his education and
attended school until he was nineteen years of age, and during his spare time assisted his father in the duties incidential
to the operating of a home farm, also learning the cheesemaking trade. He followed the latter occupation for
about four years, but when he had reached the age of twenty-four years, he purchased forty acres of land near
the home farm. In 1899 he was married to Bertha Kuse, daughter of William Kuse, a well-known farmer of
Cicero township, and to this union there have been born seven children: John, Anita, Benjamin, Irene, Helen, Clarence
and Fred.
After his marriage Mr. Jenkel continued to reside on the old home farm until 1909, at which time he
bought his father's farm and here he has since been successfully engaged in general farming. He has made many
improvements on this place, including the building of a new barn. Located on this property is an
interesting reminder of pioneer days, an old log cabin, which was on the property when it was purchased by the
elder Jenkel, and which was one of the first to be built in Outagamie county. Despite its great age, this old structure
is in fairly good condition, and its state of preservation speaks wellf or the thorough manner in which its original
owner worked.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkel are members of the German Lutheran Church of Ellington. In politics Mr. Jenkel
is a Democrat and he has served as assessor of Center township for two terms, and is now in his ninth or tenth
year as clerk of the school board.