HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY



ber Piano Manufacturing Co. of North Milwaukee, Wis. During his time with
the Reliable Furniture Co. of Neillsville he was foreman for three years
in the
machine department. In 1913 Mr. Radlinger bought the home farm in Lincoln
Township and has since made his home there. He has cleared the balance of
the
farm and has 56 acres under cultivation and the balance in pasture land.
He has
erected a new set of buildings and has expanded the dairying operations of
the
farm, using a registered Holstein sire to improve the stock. On June 25,
1901,
he married Miss Catherine C. Hortt, at Neillsville. Mrs. Radlinger was born
at
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 19, 1882, daughter of Peter and Catherine Hortt. Her
parents were German born; they lived in Milwaukee a number of years and came
to Neillsville when she was an infant; both parents are now deceased. Four
chil-
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Radlinger: Walter P., on May 7, 1902; Lawrence
J., Nov. 7, 1903; Margaret, April 18, 1908; and Charles, Jr., Jan. 19, 1921.
The
two youngest died in infancy. Walter is his father's assistant on the home
farm.
Lawrence, after being graduated from Sacred Heart Parochial School attended
night school, where he took a course in bookkeeping; he is now following
that
profession in the employ of the Farmers Co-operative Produce Co. of Marshfield.
The family are members of the Catholic Church, belonging to Sacred Heart
Parish.
Mr. Radlinger holds no pronounced party views in politics, but favors the
Pro-
gressive Republican party. He has served Lincoln Township as clerk the last
five years, and was for some time clerk of School District No. 5. He is a
member
of the John Eisen Council, No. 1799, K. of C., at Marshfield, and of the
Catholic
Order of Foresters No. 506, also of Marshfield; he is president of the Marshfield
Local A. S. of E., a stockholder in the American National Bank, Kestel Bros.
Co.
store, Marshfield Dairy Co., and Farmers Co-operative Produce Co.
   Herman J. Daniels, proprietor of a good farm in Section 5, Auburndale
Town-
ship, which he has built up from a primitive condition, was born in Germany,
July
14, 1891, son of Herman and Theresa (Becker) Daniels. When he was four years
old his parents emigrated to Wisconsin, settling at Hewitt, Wood County,
where
they are now living retired, the father being 64 years old and the mother
nearly 62.
The family being Catholic, Herman J. was educated in the parochial school
at
Hewitt and at college, which he attended for one year. Until he was 22 years
old
he lived on the farm of his parents, and then branched out for himself, taking
a
farm and a wife at the same time. The wife, to whom he was married June 17,
1913, was Theresa R., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Breu, Jr., of Auburndale
Township; and the farm consisted of 96 acres of slightly improved land in
Section
5, this township. The original buildings on the place were poor, but Mr.
Daniels
has since erected better ones, including a modern brick house and a good
barn and
silo. He has also provided himself with the proper compliment of tools, teams
and machinery, all of which are kept busy most of the time in the further
develop-
ment of the place. The farm acreage has been increased by the purchase in
1914
of 40 additional acres. Mr. Daniels also owns a good house in Hewitt village,
where he and the family reside in the winter time in order that the children
may
attend the parochial school. He has always been a hard worker and at present
has 50 acres of his land under the plow. Aside from his direct farming interests,
'he is a stockholder in the Rock Cheese & Butter Co., of which he is
treasurer, and
a stockholder in the Kestel Bros. general mercantile store at Marshfield.
Politi-
cally he is a liberal type of Republican and is now serving as clerk of School
District
No. 3. St. Michael's Catholic Congregation at Hewitt numbers him and his
family
among its sincere and devoted members, and Auburndale Township among its
useful and enterprising citizens. He and his wife are the parents of six
children,
-namely: Lauretta, Macella, Herman, Anna, John (died in infancy), and Imelda.
   John Markee, who settled in Auburndale Township, Wood County, 40 years
ago, and is now residing in the village of the same name, a prominent and
respected
citizen, after a life of worthy achievement along agricultural lines, was
born near
Danville, in Livingston County, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1848. His parents, Frank and
Susan
(Rober) Markee, were natives of Germany who had been brought to the United
States in early childhood, and who had grown up in this country and been
married



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