members of the family at this date, September
1982, are John A. of Ladysmith and Viola McCor-
mick of Shawano. By John A. Rauhut
EARL AND LUCILE READ
Leonard Read, better known as Len, was born in
England on July 11, 1869. He came to the United
States as a stowaway on a windjammer at the age
of 13. In the year of 1890 Len married Amanda
Wenzel in the town of Black River Falls,
Wisconsin.
Leonard and Amanda had four children: Earl
who was born in 1895 and died in 1970; Hazel who
died at the. age of 28; Grace who died in 1942;
William, better known as Willie, is still living in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
My grandfather Len spent most of his time with
horses. He also worked in the woods logging until
he retired to his home on Deertail Road. His hob-
bies after he retired was making windmills. I
remember that some were shaped as merry-go-
rounds and others were wooden soldiers. His other
hobbies included whittling and taking tin or metal
and bending them into different shapes and ob-
jects. Leonard died at the age of 91.
Earl married Lucile Hanson in 1925. They lived
in the Ladysmith area until 1943 when they moved
to the home place on Main Valley Road.
Earl and Lucile had four children: Edwin who
married Delaine Wolff. They have three children.
LeRoy who was married to Carol Pottraz. They
have five children and two grandchildren; William
who married Deloris Abbiehl. They have six
children and three grandchildren; Betty who mar-
ried Richard Balz. They have four children and
three grandchildren.
My dad Earl worked in the woods most of his
life. He was known throughout Rusk County for
his western wear and his horses. He rode his horses
in almost all the parades in the area.
Lucile's family originated from Germany and
Denmark. Her grandmother, Lena, who married
John Eickhoff came from Germany.
Minnie (one of their daughters) which is my
grandmother, married William Peter Hanson in
1904 in Appleton, Wisconsin. From Appleton they
moved to Oaks, North Dakota until 1911. From
there they moved to Rusk County to Deertail
Road, where they cleared their own land and built
their homestead.
William and Minnie had five children: Lucile
who married Earl Read; Louis who married Edna
Haase. They have eight children, eleven grand-
children and twenty-eight great-grandchildren;
William who is deceased; Rosella who was married
to Calvin Lauderdale. They have two children and
two grandchildren; Wilna who married Earl Prou-
ty. They have four children and fourteen grand-
children and twelve great-grandchildren.
William, better known as Bill, served in the
Spanish American War when he was 17, 1895.
William was an assessor during the years 1932
thru 1935. They lived in Rusk County for 40 years.
Edwin and Delaine Read live on the William
Hanson home place. Submitted by Betty Lou Balz
P. REICHEL
Peter Reichel was born January 29, 1872 to
David and Anna at Deitel, Russia. Kathryn Ring
was born January 11, 1878 to David and Kathryn,
nee Meisinger, Ring in the same village. They were
married December 25, 1898. My grandmother told
me when she was growing up there, the countries
of northern Europe were often at war, either hav-
ing revolutions within their own country or war
with neighboring countries over land and posses-
sions. As a result, boundaries were not as we know
them today.
Although my grandparents were born in Russia,
their ancestry and language was German. Peter
and Kathryn longed for a better place to live and
raise their family, so, on October 13, 1906 they
boarded a ship for America with their three small
sons, very little money, a few precious belongings
and their horses. What courage it must have taken
to go to a strange country where they wouldn't
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know anyone, nor be able to read or speak the
language. The trip was a terrible ordeal; they had
the cheapest available accommodations in the
lower portion of the ship where the animals were
kept and with no human comforts. Many of the
passengers were very ill, my grandmother among
them; she was expecting her fourth child soon.
They landed at Galveston, Texas November 22,
1906; on November 24 they left by train for Sugar
City, Colorado. There, on January 3, 1907, my
father, Andrew arrived; their first child to be born
on American soil.
They traveled from Colorado to Kansas, then to
Oklahoma as migrant workers, cultivating and
harvesting what was the main crop at that time,
sugar beets. Soon tiring of the wind and severe
summer dust storms and the terrible living condi-
tions for their family, they came by rail to Rusk
County in 1912. They had heard of the logging in-
dustry and the cheap land for sale in Wisconsin.
There were no roads; the railroad used to haul logs
out of the woods was the only transportation. My
dad has said the trees were so thick, the only way
to see the sun was to look straight up.
My grandfather's brother David and family
came to Wisconsin, also. The two families lived
together in a large vacant house along the railroad
tracks until they built their own homes on land
purchased from the Arpin Lumber Company. The
brothers worked as loggers all winter and cleared
their own land during the summer. Eventually,
they each became dairy farmers, building their
homes and large barns on adjoining land where
they spent the rest of their lives. (The farms are
still occupied by direct Reichel descendants).
My grandparents had nine children in all, Jacob,
Peter, David, Andrew, Elizabeth, Leda, twins Alec
and Freida and Esther. Almost everything they
needed for that large family was built, planted and
harvested by hand, with hard work and the sheer
determination to survive and prosper in their
adopted country. My grandfather passed away
March 21, 1953, my grandmother died on January
8, 1956, leaving us with so many wonderful
memories of those two genuine pioneers. Margery
(Reichel) Keller, Granddaughter

and natural resources and their somewhat subtle
relationships. My formal and informal education
has been invested in achieving a better under-
standing of: a) human and natural resources, b)
the important inter-relationships of resources on
micro- and macro-dimension, c) the complex
cultural context of increasingly large communities
of people interacting with varying systems of
values, and d) the opportunity, effect and re-
sponsibility of education in this scheme of support
for the quality of life.
Both as a volunteer and in my employment, my
life work seems characterized by the terms "ac-
tion" and "involvement" ... helping people (as in-
dividuals and in kindred groups) increase their ap-
preciation of: a) their own personal and collective
resource/s as human beings and ... b) the varied
natural resources in the world around them. En-
couraging their active involvement in projects and
consideration of the issues of the day, it has been a
hope there will follow an awareness, then apprecia-
tion, then wise-use of the natural and human
resources. And still further, that many may sense
the perspective of wordly needs and wants ... of

Jean Sanford Replinger - 1979

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reichel and Esther

JEAN SANFORD REPLINGER
... statement to the governor of Minnesota in an
application to serve on the MINNESOTA EN-
VIRONMENTAL EDUCATION COUNCIL
... 1972 (by Jean Sanford Replinger)
... "As a youngster, I grew up in unsettled lands
of northern Wisconsin, coming to feel a joy in its
wildness and an appreciation for what it took to
"tame" it to make a living. Both Father and
Mother were teachers, eventually county
superintendents, whose lives were spent enriching
the individual and collective human resources of a
rural community via educational opportunity and
achievement.
My whole life has been spent dealing with an ap-
preciation and an increasing concern for human

It has seemed natural for me to assist and en-
courage, at local, regional and national levels,
inter-agency and inter-institutional cooperation
... an avenue too seldom used, yet so necessary in
achieving the kind of mutual understanding and
wise balance of resource development for today's
world.
As you can see, I have spent a lifetime (young as
I am) in concern for environmental education ...
in any arena. I would appreciate the opportunity to
use this concern and some expertise, my resource,
... where it can make a significant difference to
the people and the world of my time ... and
perhaps even for a significant future.
Jean Sanford   Replinger (1928 -    born,
Ladysmith; 1946 - Ladysmith H.S. graduate;
1950 - BS UW-Madison; Health and Physical
Education; 1950-67 - faculty, Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio; 1963 - MS Colorado U.;
Counseling, Physical Education, Psychology; 1966
- married Randall J. Replinger; son, Eric; 1961,
62 and 1978, 79 - graduate work Ohio State
University; UW-Madison; 1969 to present -
faculty, Southwest State University; Marshall,
Minn.
Spent summers and school breaks leading trips
in U.S. and Europe by bicycle, canoe, cross coun-
try ski, foot - within each year including at least
one group trip to Ladysmith environs. Active in
significant Kentucky cave research exploration.
Served on Town Councils in Ohio and Minnesota
and National Boards of AYH, AAHPER, ACA.
Involved in the inception of the outdoor education
movement as director (10 years) of Antioch Col-
lege Outdoor Education Center ... and in incep-
tion of Minnesota Outward Bound School. Active
in programs for the handicapped with Outward
Bound and Sons of Norway Ski for Light. 1981
named   Marshall Business and   Professional