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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 137-138]
         
         ANTON E. GERLACH, who died at his home in Fountain City, 
       Buffalo county, Jan. 23, 1916, was a man who had made an 
       excellent record as an educator, farmer and public official, 
       and who as a citizen was held in high esteem. He was born 
       in Springbrook, Iowa, in 1861, son of Mr. and Mrs. EDWARD 
       GERLACH, and came with his parents to Glencoe, Buffalo 
       county, Wisconsin, when a few years of age. There he was 
       reared to manhood, obtained a common school education, and 
       took a course in the high school at Arcadia. For several 
       years he taught in the rural schools of the county. Subse-
       quently he purchased the farm from his father and operated 
       it himself for several years, paying particular attention 
       to stock raising. Later he sold it and accepted the position 
       as assistant principal of the Fountain City high school, 
       which he held for several years, or until the Fountain City 
       Co-operative Creamery Association was organized, when he 
       became the secretary thereof, conducting the business so 
       successfully that the institution became one of the foremost 
       creameries of the state. After holding that position until 
       January, 1916, he resigned it to accept the postmastership 
       of Fountain City, but death claimed him before the change 
       could be made. During his residence of nearly twenty years 
       in Fountain City, MR. GERLACH served in a public way as a 
       member of the school board, the city council and the volun-
       teer fire department. He was considered by all who knew him 
       as a man of his word at all times, with honor and integrity 
       ever uppermost, never yielding to injustice, rigid in princ-
       iple, but always tolerant of the honest opinions of others 
       even when they differed with him. In 1892 MR. GERLACH was 
       married to Miss ANNIE BARTH, and of this union one daughter 
       was born, ALETHEA, who now resides with her mother in 
       Fountain City.
       
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