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

         [page 145-146]

         CHARLES L. KEENLYNE, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits
       in section 31, Maxville township, Buffalo county, is a native
       of Wisconsin, having been born in Sumner township, Kenosha county,
       Sept. 5, 1853, son of CHARLES and ALBERTINA (ENGLEHARDT) KEENLYNE.
       The parents were natives of Bavaria, Germany, the father born in
       Augsburg and the mother in Weisenburg. Married in their native
       land, about 1850, they emigrated to the United States, with one
       child, ROSETTA, making the voyage on a sailing vessel. CHARLES
       KEENLYNE had been a farmer in Germany, and after arriving in this
       country he and his family settled first in Iowa, from which state
       he later moved to Winona, Minn. There his wife died, in March,
       1862, at the age of 45 years, and in the fall of the same year
       he moved to Durand, Wis. In the same fall he went back to Germany,
       where he married again. On the way back to the United States with
       his wife, he took sick, and never afterwards recovered his health,
       dying in Princeton, Iowa, in 1865. He left three children: ROSETTA,
       CHARLES and ALBERT. CHARLES L. KEENLYNE had few educational advan-
       tages in his youth, as he left home at the age of 9 years, and for
       some time after lived among strangers. He learned both farming and
       carpenter work and at last started in for himself in the former
       occupation, in section 12, Canton township, getting a tract of
       80 acres, of which some of the land was improved. He was married
       in that township, Nov. 4, 1877, to IDA L. DOANE, and they resided
       in a log house on his farm until 1882. In that year MR. KEENLYNE,
       who had, in the meanwhile, improved his place, sold it and took
       up his residence in Durand, where he and his wife lived for a
       year. On Nov. 21, 1883, he moved to section 29, Maxville township,
       buying 120 acres of land, to which he added until he had 280 acres.
       This farm also he improved, selling it in 1901, and coming to his
       present place, in section 31, Nov. 14, that year. Here he has a
       tract of 160 acres, with 100 additional acres of bottom land. He
       has improved the buildings and is doing a successful farming busi-
       ness, keeping a good grade of stock. He also helped to start the
       Burnside Creamery, of which he is one of the directors and a
       stockholder. As a prominent citizen of his township, MR. KEENLYNE
       has been called upon several times to serve in public office,
       having been assessor two terms and having served as supervisor
       on the side board. He belongs to Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F., of
       Durand; also to Sibley Lodge, No. 1961, Independent Order of
       Foresters, and to Misha Mokwa, Tamarack Camp of Woodmen. His
       wife belongs to the Royal Neighbors and Yeomen. They have had
       eight children: LAURA I., wife of CASPER RODNICER; IONE A., wife
       of JOHN KARCHBAUM, of Lima, Pepin county; CORA E., now MRS. BERT
       E. BOYD, of Maxville township; EFFIE J., who was for eight years
       a teacher, and who married LOUIS ROSENBERG, and resides in Nelson;
       MINNIE C. M., who is a teacher; ALBERT W.; HAZEl F., also a
       teacher, and EUNICE M., who died in infancy, in 1881. MRS. IDA
       L. KEENLYNE was born in Eden, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin,
       six miles east of Fond du Lac city - the place now being known
       as Marble - on May 19, 1860, daughter of ORLANDO A. DOANE, her
       mother's maiden name being SARAH JANE JONES.

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