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

         [page 187-188]
         
         FRED W. KNOSPE, who is numbered among the successful farmers
       of Alma township, Buffalo county, a resident of section 34, was
       born in Town Lincoln, Oct. 24, 1875, son of FRED, SR., and CARO-
       LINE (KNOSPE) KNOSPE. The parents were married in Germany, where
       the father was born February 15, 1834, and the mother February 
       2, 1836. Coming to the United States about 1872, they located in
       Lincoln township and then moved to Alma township, Buffalo county,
       in 1877, the farm on which they lived being now occupied by their
       son, HERMAN. FRED KNOSPE, SR., died Sept. 2, 1902, and his wife
       Feb. 17, 1912. They had seven children, one of whom, WILLIAM, 
       died at the age of 14 years. The others were CHARLES, died in 
       1918; AUGUSTA, wife of HERMAN SCHROEDER; MARY, wife of FRED ROSE-
       NOW; ALWINA, who died at the age of 16 years; FRED W., subject
       of this sketch, and HERMAN, now on the home farm. FRED W. KNOSPE
       spent his boyhood and early youth in attending school and work-
       ing on the home farm as his father's assistant. At the age of
       24 years he married and rented a farm in Alma township (section
       34), which he operated for five years. He then became manager of
       the farm on which he now lives and which contains 160 acres, 100
       acres being cleared. MR. KNOSPE raises both grain and stock, his
       chief industries, however, being dairying and the raising of swine.
       His farm is provided with good buildings and equipement and its
       fertile soil yields good returns for the labor expended on it.
       MR. KNOSPE has served as clerk of the school district and at the
       present time is one of the directors. He was married, Oct. 24,
       1900, to CLARA MUEHLEISEN, who was born in Belvidere township, 
       Feb. 5, 1880, daughter of GEORGE and MARGUERITE (KEILHOLTZ)
       MUEHLEISEN. Her father, born in Germany, Sept. 11, 1834, is now
       living at Tell; he is a widower, his wife having died at the
       age of 68 years. Their family contained nine children; LOUIS,
       who married ROSETTA MERRIFIELD and is now living in Washington;
       CORA, who married JACOB KELLAR and lives in Belvidere, Buffalo
       county; MARGARET, wife of ANTOINE CASSELLA and a resident of
       Kansas; HENRY, who married TILLIE ZUEHLKE and resides in Winona,
       Minn.; GEORGE, who married CORA HOBDE and lives in Belvidere;
       SUSANNA, who died at the age of three years; SUSAN, who married
       PHILIP GROSS; CLARA, now MRS. FRED W. KNOSPE; and GOTTLIEB, who
       is unmarried and resides at Tell, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. KNOSPE have
       had three children; ESTHER, born Oct. 5, 1901, who is residing
       at home; RONALD FRED, born June 26, 1905, who died May 6, 1907;
       and MILDRED ROSE, born Oct. 23, 1908, who is attending school.
       The family are members of the German Lutheran Church.
       
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