BIOGRAPHIES:   Albert J. BAUTCH, Burnside Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Albert J. Bautch, municipal expert, promoter, contractor, geologist and 
linguist, is widely known in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and has extensive 
interests in Canada and Texas.  As a well driller and waterworks expert he 
has bored wells along the right of way of the Green Bay & Western from 
Green Bay to Winona, he has installed the extensive waterworks systems of 
Winona, Minn., Independence, Wis., and Spring Valley, Wis., as well as in 
smaller places scattered throughout Western Wisconsin.  As a telephone 
promoter he has installed telephones in Western Wisconsin and Eastern 
Minnesota, and founded several leading systems in these regions.  As an 
auctioneer he has been successful and popular, and has served more years 
than any other man in the county.  As a business man he established the 
first Independence jewelry store.  As a man of scholarly attainments he is 
well versed in mathematics, science, geology, general history and the 
classics, and is the master of three languages:  English, German and Polish.  
As a lecturer he has addressed audiences in all three of these languages, one 
of his favorite topics being "Natural Experiences."  As a musician he has a 
deep appreciation of harmony and has done considerable musical teaching.  
With all of these broad experiences he is genial and approachable, a pleasant, 
courteous, deep thinking man in every respect.  At the present time, though 
he makes his home in Independence, much of his attention is given to his 
holdings in Canada.  Albert J. Bautch was born in New Lisbon, Juneau County, 
Wis., Jan. 13, 1859, son of Albert and Josephine Bautch, and was brought to 
this county by his parents.  He attended the public schools of this county and 
the Northwestern Business College at Winona, and remained for a number of 
years with his father.  For a while he operated the mill on his father's place, 
but in 1895 disposed of it to his brother, John L., and bought the mill at 
Independence.  Mr. Bautch was married in Winona, Minn., to Paulina Rozek, who 
is now deceased.  They became the parents of seven children:  Carl F., Thomas,
Della, Albert, Esther, Josephine and Sylvester, the last mentioned of whom was 
drowned.  All the children were well educated by their father and are well 
qualified to make their own way in the world.

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 760 & 761


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