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

         [page 178]
         
         AUGUST LAUTERBACH, a pioneer of Modena township, Buffalo
       county, was born in Germany, Jan. 27, 1835, and came to the
       United States in 1851 by sailing vessel. Ten years later he
       was married in La Crosse, Wis., to EMELIA LINSE, who was
       born in Germany, Oct. 29, 1837, and who is still living in
       Modena township. The settled in the town of Shelby, La Crosse
       county, where they resided for two years, at the end of that
       time coming to Modena township, Buffalo county. Here they lo-
       cated in German Valley, section 11, where SAM MEYER now re-
       sides, and erecting log buildings, MR. LAUTERBACH began
       pioneer farming with an ox team. After a residence there of
       nine years he and his family removed to section 25, obtain-
       ing 120 acres of land, of which about ten acres had been
       broken, there being also a small shanty on the land. There
       MR. LAUTERBACH passed the rest of his life, engaged in im-
       proving his place, his death occurring about 1872. He and
       his wife had five children; WILLIAM, now deceased; ADOLPH,
       a farmer in Modena township; MARIE, now deceased, who was
       the wife of FRANK ROCKWELL; AUGUST, who died at the age of
       three years, and EMELIA.
       
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