HISTORY OF MANITFOWOC COUNTY


eighty acres near Newton and resided on the same for about twenty-three years.
In i877 he bought the farm on which Henry Hoefner, of this rview, now lives.
Henry Hoefner, Sr., erected the present excellent house and barn and resided
on this farm until his death. He passed away in I904, at the age of seventy-
three, and his wife yet lives on the home place, at the age of seventy-six.
In their
family were seven children, Henry, Mary, Sophia, Annie, Charley, Ernst and
Lena.
Henry Hoefner, Jr., received his education in the neighborhood district
school and grew to manhood on his father's farm, where he has passed all
his
time, with the exception of eight months which he spent on a farm near Min-
neapolis, returning from there on account of his father's ill health and
then tak-
ing charge of the home farm. He at first rented a part of the homestead and
later bought the other part and subsequently purchased it all.
On the 8th of June, I894, Mr. Hoefner wedded Miss Annie Bramybrauch,
who was born in Newton and was the daughter of John Bramybrauch. To Mr.
and Mrs. Hoefner have been born seven children, Dora, Hilda, Edmond, Carl,
Waldo, Hetha and Norbert. Mr. Hoefner is greatly interested in educational
advancement in his community and has served as school director for three
years.
Both he and his wife belong to the German Lutheran church at Newton. He
has given his undivided time to farming and throughout his residence in his
native county has done his full share in the work of agricultural development,
and has always borne an unassailable reputation as a progressive and enter-
prising citizen.
FREDERICK DREWS.
Frederick Drews, for many years a successful farmer in the town of Mish-
icot, a veteran of the Civil war, and a citizen of this town who has served
in
various official capacities, is now living retired on a part of his old homestead
on section 5, at the edge of the village of Mishicot. He was born in Holstein,
.Germany, August 12, I834, and is a son of John and Anna (Rheinholdt) Drews,
who spent their lives in the fatherland. Their children were: Christian,
Joa-
chim, John, Herman, Henry, Mary, Lena and Frederick. Mr. Drews' sister,
Lena, was the first of the family to come to the United States, and she was
followed by Mary, and later by Frederick, who came to Two Rivers, Wisconsin,
in I8-55
There were no roads at that time and Frederick Drews walked to the pres-
ent site of Mishicot to work in the sawmill that had been erected by Dan
Smith. For twenty-five years he worked in the sawmills and lumber woods,
and then located on sixty acres of land on section 5, adjoining the village
of
Mishicot, at that time a tract of wild timberland. Erecting a log house,
six-
teen by twenty feet, he started in to clear his land, and this first cabin
has now
been replaced by a modern residence, occupied by Nick Eller, who married
Mr.
Drews, daughter, Anna. Mr. Drews later added twenty acres to his land on
which he is now living retired, and became one of the substantial men of
his
locality, serving as the first constable of the village of Mishicot, a position
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