BIOGRAPHIES:  Frederick GUELDNER, Albany Township, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by:  oldstufn@hotmail.com  on  11 May 2005
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Frederick Gueldner, one of the early settlers of Albany township,
Pepin County, was born in Germany and came to the United States when
young man in 1855, locating first in Portage, Wis., where he remained
for some five or six years. He then moved to Mondovi, Buffalo County
where he worked some time for Harvey Brown and for Joe Harvey's
father. In 1858 he was married in Pepin County to Elvina Guessner,
who had come to this country when a child and they settled on 80
acres of wild land in section 31, Albany Township, Pepin County.
Besides improving his original tract Mr. Gueldner bought 120 acres
more, thus increasing the size of his farm to 200 acres, also
building a two story stone house, consisting of an upright 24 by 30
feet with a wing 18 by 20 feet. He also put up two frame barns, and
at the time of his death, which took place in Eau Claire in 1911, had
120 acres under the plow. His wife, Elvina, died on the farm many
years before in 1879. They had four sons: Fred, who now owns the old
homestead but is living retired in Mondovi City; Louis, a prosperous
farmer in Albany township, Pepin county; Alvin, who is farming at
Grand, Nebr.; and Frank, a prosperous farmer in Mondovi township,
Buffalo county. Frederick Gueldner, the father, was a prominent
citizen in his locality, for twenty-five years holding public office
and being highly respected.

-Transcribed from the "History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties
Wisconsin, 1919", page 504


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