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

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Albert Bautch, a pioneer miller and millwright, was born in Germany, was 
there educated and reared, and became an adept in various lines of mechanics 
and woodworking.  In 1854 he and his wife Josephine set out for the United 
States aboard a sailing vessel, the long and tedious voyage taking nearly 
three months, and entailing many hardships.  Landing at Quebec, strangers in 
a strange land, and with their trunk lost, containing not only a part of 
their baggage, but also a letter of directions from their cousin Joseph 
Bautch, who had preceded them, they made their way down the lakes to 
Milwaukee, and thence to Watertown, landing at New Lisbon, in Juneau County, 
this state, Dec. 24, 1854.  There Mr. Bautch opened a farm, also working as a 
mechanic, as a broad-axe hewer and as a logger on the Wisconsin River.  Later 
he located in Trempealeau County.  Here in 1862 he helped to build the mill 
at New City, near what is now Independence.  Later he moved to Arcadia.  In 
1869 he moved to a farm in section 26, Burnside Township, which has since 
been the family home.  There he built a flour mill, which is still in 
existence, having been owned for some fifteen years by a son, Albert J., and 
now by another son, John L.  Mr. Bautch was a pioneer in the true sense, a 
public spirited man, and a most estimable and useful citizen.  He was a 
member of the Catholic church and one of the organizers of the North Creek 
Congregation.  He and his wife both died in Trempealeau.  They had a family 
of eight children:  John L., Peter, Albert J., Anna, Mary, Julia, Kasper and 
Thomas, of whom the three last mentioned are now deceased.

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 759 & 760


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