HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


natives of Germany who came to America in I852, and settled in the town of
Kossuth, where Mr. Kerscher became the owner of a tract of wild land on
section I4. Mr. Kerscher had been married before to Theresa Pankratz, by
whom he had two children: Wolfgang, of Kossuth; and Annie, the wife of
Charles Hessel, of the town of Kossuth. To his second union there were born
seven children: Mary; Theresa; Louis, who is farming in the town of Kossuth;
Rose, the wife of Charles Weary, of Stephenson, Michigan; Sophia, who mar-
ried Matt Koch of the town of Kossuth; and Bertha and Frank. Mr. and Mrs.
Ewen have the following children: Rosie, who is attending business college
in
Manitowoc; and Edwin and William, at home.
Mr. Ewen is a democrat in his political views, was town clerk for eight years,
has served as justice of the peace since he reached his twenty-second year,
was
chairman of the town for six years and chairman of the county board for two
years. He and his family are active members and stanch supporters of the
Catholic church at Francis Creek.
ANTON OLP.
Anton Olp, a farmer and stock-raiser of Franklin township, and the owner
of
one hundred and twenty-eight acres of valuable land on sections 31 and 36,
was
born in Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, on October 3, i862, and is a son of
Julius
and Hannah (Nass) Olp, natives of Germany. Mr. Olp's parents came to the
United States as young people, and were married in Wisconsin, shortly after
which they settled on eighty acres of land near Cooperstown, where they resided
until i893, at which time they retired to Manitowoc, where Mr. Olp died in
i894,
aged fifty-eight years, his widow surviving until 1904 and passing away when
sixty-two years of age. Both are buried at Manitowoc.
Anton Olp was the second of a family of eleven children, and received a
common-school education, remaining at home until he was twenty-one years
of
age; at which time he commenced working for wages. He continued thus for
five years, when he engaged in farming in South Dakota on a homestead, but
after
three years, on account of a drought, he returned to Manitowoc county and
again
worked for wages. Two years later he rented a farm, and after one year pur-
chased a part of his present farm, and since July, I893, he has lived here,
gradu-
ally adding to his acreage until he now has one hundred and twenty-eight
acres,
one hundred and six of which are under cultivation. The entire property is
fenced with barbed wire, and Mr. Olp carries on general farming, marketing
hay,
grain and dairy products, and milking twelve cows. He has a frame barn, one
hundred and sixteen by thirty-six feet, which he remodeled from an older
and
smaller one in i9ii, while his residence is frame covering log, and two stories
and
one-half in height. His water supply is secured from drilled wells.
Mr. Olp was married in i888 to Miss Albertina Engelbrecht, who was born
March i, i870, a daughter of William and Ernestina (Becker) Engelbrecht.
Mrs.
Olp's parents were natives of Germany who were married in Wisconsin, and
set-
tled in Manitowoc county, where the father is living at the age of seventy-one
years, his wife being sixty-eight. Ten children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs.
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