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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 166]

         AUGUSTUS FINKELNBURG, Fountain City, born in Marienlinden,
       Prussia, May 8, 1830, educated in the college at Munstereiffel;
       came to the United States in 1848; chose surveying and the study
       of law as a profession, while living in St. Charles, Mo. Crossed
       the plains in 1851, to California, and followed surveying and
       mining there; returned on muleback from San Diego, in 1854; built
       and stocked the second store opened in Winona, in the Spring of
       1855; followed surveying in Buffalo County, and located immigrants;
       built a dwelling in Fountain City in the Fall of 1855; married and
       settled down; helped to widen Indian trails till they were called
       roads, to build bridges where slippery logs connected the banks of
       the creeks; camped in Mondovi and Eau Claire, hunting up connec-
       tions, before corner lots were known; acted as Clerk at the first
       sessions of Circuit Court and County Board in the county; was elected
       the first County Superintendent of Schools, also District Attorney,
       County Judge, member of Assembly, State Senator -  better than that,
       raised a family of nine children, and owns as comfort able a home
       as there is in the county.

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