BIOGRAPHIES:  Julius HENSEL, Arcadia, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Julius Hensel, a pioneer, was born in Prussia, Jan. 7, 1833, and was brought 
to this country by his parents at the age of 5 years.  His wife, Sarah E. 
Simpson, whom he married at Cross Plains, Dane County, Wis., was born in 
England, Dec. 25, 1835, and came to America at the age of 5 years.  In 1856 
he came to Buffalo County, in this State, and two years later brought his 
wife here, overland by ox-team.  Together they started to carve their 
fortunes in the wilderness.  So well and faithfully did they labor that 
their original tract of 160 acres had in 1861 been increased to a whole 
section of land.  Loyal to his adopted country, he listened to the call 
of duty in 1862 and enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry.  After doing valiant service for about a year he was wounded at 
the battle of Atlanta and as a result was confined in the Alfred Harvey 
Hospital, where, after his partial recovery, he was retained as an assistant 
for a while before his honorable discharge.  Upon his release he returned to 
his farm, where he successfully carried on farming operations until the 
summer of 1876, when he retired and moved to Arcadia, where he and his wife 
spent the remainder of their lives.  They were the parents of 11 children:  
Phalana, of Whitehall; Frederic W., of Hay Creek, Ore.; Frank (deceased); 
Alfred Harvey (deceased); Hiram E., of Arcadia; Leroy (deceased); Ruth E., 
the wife of Robert Pedder, of Arcadia; Charles, of Sheyenne, N. D.; Earl F., 
of Whitehall; Herman T. (deceased), and Fannie J. (deceased).

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," page 774.

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