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

         [page 195]
         
         JOHN G. VOLLMER, one of the pioneer settlers in the village
       of Alma, Buffalo county, was born in Switzerland, June 26, 1831.
       He acquired a good education in his native land, in which he
       traveled for some time, and also in Germany. In 1855, at the
       age of 24 years, he left home for the United States, where he
       found himself after a voyage of 96 days on the ocean. Without
       wasting any time in Eastern cities, he came directly to the
       west, making his first stop in Fountain City, Wisconsin, where
       he remained until the following year. In April, 1856, he ar-
       rived in Alma, which was then a very small village containing
       but a few houses. Realizing that the village was not the place
       in which to make his fortune, he lost no time in securing a
       homestead in Alma township, which, however, he afterwards sold,
       buying a tract of wild land in sections 1, 2 and 3. His first
       dwelling on the place was the customary log cabin, and he broke
       and cultivated the land with an ox team in true pioneer fashion.
       In 1858 he married MARGARET HUSENG, like himself a native of
       Switzerland, who had come to this country, arriving in Buffalo
       county in the fall of 1857. Together for many years they lived
       the lives of industrious farmers, increasing in prosperity as
       time went on, until they retired from active work. MR. VOLLMER
       died in Illinois in August, 1918, 87 years old. His wife died
       in 1913 at the age of 76 years and six months.
       
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