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

         [page 144]
         
         JACOB W. RINGGER, who holds the important position of butter
       maker in the creamery in Modena township, Buffalo county, was 
       born in the city of Alma, this county, Nov. 28, 1886, son of 
       JACOB and LULA (GULAR) RINGGER. The parents were natives of 
       Switzerland, where the father was born about 1867. He is now 
       living, but his wife died when her son JACOB W. was about seven 
       years old. From that time until he arrived at the age of 15 
       years, the subject of this sketch made his home with HENRY 
       FEHRING, of Modena township. His early industrial activities 
       were connected chiefly with farming, but he also worked at 
       times in creameries. To the latter business he resolved to 
       devote his energies, and in order to properly qualify himself, 
       he went to the college at Madison, where, in due time, he was 
       graduated. For seven years subsequently he was employed in 
       the Burnside creamery, this county, and then, in the spring 
       of 1917, came to the .creamery in Modena township, with which 
       he has since been connected. That MR. RINGGER is a master of 
       his trade is evidenced by the fact that he has won three di-
       plomas for butter making. While residing at Burnside he served 
       one year as school clerk, but resigned that position on account 
       of being too busy with creamery work. He was married, Sept. 26, 
       1906, to ELIZABETH THOMPSON, and he and his wife are the parents 
       of three children: RUSSELL, RALPH and BURT.
       
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