HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


toe, which, however, was secured in place and grew on as well as ever. At
about
the same time he broke his leg, and later, while driving, the ox team became
entangled in a rail fence and his jaw was broken by a flying fence rail.
His
mother died on the home farm at the age of seventy-eight years.
At the age of twenty-four, Mr. Vogl was married to Miss Mary Neiner, a
daughter of Peter Neiner, and eleven children have been born to them: Pauline,
Julia, Adelheid, Anna, Victor, Mary, Elmer, Charlotte, Thresa, Evelyn and
Henry, of whom Anna and Henry are deceased. Mr. Vogel is a democrat in
politics, and he has served on the jury and as town constable. The family
has
Llways been connected with the Catholic church.
JOSEPH KRIZENESKY.
Joseph Krizenesky, one of the farmers of Maple Grove township, who is
counted among the prosperous agriculturists of Manitowoc county, was torn
in
Chicago, October i6, i867. He is a son of John and Frances (Vondrack) Kriz-
enesky, natives of Austria, who married there, and came to the United States
in
1864. They first settled in Chicago, but in i868, moved to Wisconsin, locating
in Manitowoc county. Here they bought one hundred acres in the town of Rock-
land, all of which was still in a wild state, although there was a small
log cabin
on the property.> Moving into this, they commenced to clear the land.
Within
six years the mother died, but the father remained on the farm for eight
years
longer. In the meanwhile he sold out, and subsequently for two years rented
land near Reedsville. Following this, he bought eighty acres in the town
of
Maple Grove, living upon that property until his death, which occurred about
i886. He had six children, of whom Joseph was the fourth. The latter re-
mained with his father until he died, when the son was nineteen years old.
After losing his father, Joseph Krizenesky went into the northern woods of
Wis-
consin and for four years worked in lumber camps, and for a year was engaged
in business in Antigo, Wisconsin. He then came to Reedsville, where he was
en-
gaged in conducting a first-class buffet for a year, and during that period
he
bought one acre of his present property. On it he established a hotel and
buffet,
in I894, and since then has continued in these two lines of business. In
i900, he
bought the farm adjoining and now owns seventy-five acres of excellent land,
which he also operates. He has seventy acres under the plow, and in a high
state of cultivation, and all of it is fenced with barbed wire. He carries
on gen-
eral farming, marketing dairy products, and raising grain, hay and clover
seed.
He milks twelve cows, carrying graded stock. His basement barn is forty by
eighty feet, and was built in i9io, having cement floors and the water supply
for
all purposes comes from drilled wells.
In i892, Mr. Krizenesky was married to Theresa Augustine, a daughter of
Joseph and Anna Augustine, also natives of Austria. Mr. and Mrs. Augustine
were married in their native land, but came to this country soon thereafter,
set-
tling in Kewaunee, where both died, when Mrs. Krizenesky was a child, she
being the third in a family of four children, being born October i, I872.
Mr.
and Mrs. Krizenesky became the parents of the following children: Mary;


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