HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY



William and Arthur. Max is now a contractor in Detroit, William a plumber
in Milwaukee, and Arthur is in the shoe store with the father. Gus M. Hafen-
brack was seven months old when his parents took him to Milwaukee, where
he
was reared and educated, attending common and high school. He then spent
three years in the employ of the Northwestern National Insurance Co., after
which he went west to the Yakima Valley in the state of Washington, and worked
for a year at ranching. His next experience was as an employee of the First
National Bank at Yakima, Wash., and lasted four years. The three following
years were spent by him as a salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.,
and during this period he removed to Olympia, Wash., and then to Seattle,
where
he remained two years, making it his headquarters while he covered the central
and western parts of the state of Washington for the Burroughs Company. As
a result of his work he was complimented by the company with a trip to the
San
Francisco Fair, and the next year became a member of the Burroughs All-Star
Club. After his three years with that company he returned east to Wisconsin
and became associated with Mr. L. M. Alexander. He worked two years with
the Cream City Sash and Door Co., Milwaukee. While there, because of his
long interest in the Y. M. C. A., he was elected to the board of directors
of that
organization in that city. In 1919 he came to Port Edwards and has since
taken
an active interst in community work, having had much to do with the Depart-
ment of Industrial Relations as assistant to F. H. Rosebush. He is also editor
of -the "Nepco," the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co's. publication, and
secretary
of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association. He is a stockholder in the
mill
and is fraternally affiliated with the Masonic order. In October, 1922, he
was
elected a vice-president of the Wisconsin Social Work Conference, and he
is presi-
dnet of the Wood County Sunday School Association. On Nov. 11, 1911, Mr.
Hafenbrack was united in marriage, at Yakima, Wash., with Naunerl Hill, daughter
of John W. and Mary Hill. Her parents, natives of Illinois, are now living
in
Olympia. To Mr. and Mrs. Hafenbrack three children. have been born, John
C., Mary E. and James Hill.
   John Ten Pas, well-kinown member of the Ten Pas family of Sigel Township,
was born at Sheboygan, Wis., Aug. 17, 1895, son of Garrett and Cesina Ten
Pas.
The parents were natives of Holland, and came to the United States in July,
1893. They settled at Sheybogan, where the father followed his trade as a
car-
penter until 1900, when they came to Wood County and bought 93 acres in Section,
5, Sigel Township, adding an adjoining 93-acre tract three years later. All
of
this land was covered with stumps and brush, and its development into the
pro-
ductive farm it now is was no task to be attempted by the faint-hearted;
for its
accomplishment the greatest praise is due to Mr. Ten Pas Sr. and his family.
The father carried on general farming here and also operated a cheese factory
in partnership with John Bymers which the two had erected on Mr. Ten Pas'
farm in 1912, until his death in March of 1914; since this time the operation
of
the farm has been carried on by his sons; full ownership of the cheese factory
has
been purchased by the partner in this enterprise, Mr. Bymers. The mother
is now making her home in Vesper. Seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ten
Pas are now living: John, William, Elmer, Jeanette, Harvey, Berdina, and
Evelyn.
Jeanette is now teaching school; the other daughters are attending high school.
After the death of the father, John and William took over the operation of
the
farm, operating it for their mother until June 1, 1919, when they bought
it and
have since carried it on for their own account. It was equipped by the father
in the spring of 1914 with a modern barn 36 by 112 feet, furnished throughout
with
James equipment and completely adequate to the needs of modern dairy farming,
having running water, electric lights, etc.; the brothers are operating the
place
along the most up-to-date lines, having a herd of 36 pure-bred Holstein cattle,
of which they are now milking 15 cows. The property is known as the Elm Drive
Stock and Dairy Farm. Both brothers have taken a course in agriculture at
the
University in Madison. In 1921 they built a modern bungalow, where the mother
and William now live. William was born at Sheboygan, Wis., Jan. 17, 1897,



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