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

         [page 195-196]
         
         JOHN VOLLMER, former treasurer of Buffalo county, residing in
       the village of Alma, was for a number of years prominent as a
       county official, both as treasurer and as sheriff. He was born
       in the village of Alma, this county, May 13, 1859, son of JOHN
       G. and MARGARET (HUSEND) VOLLMER. He was reared to manhood on
       his parents' farm, having few educational opportunities, as the
       nearest school was four miles distant; but in spite of this
       handicap he managed to acquire the elements of knowledge through
       home study, first learning to read, after which he found the ac-
       quisition of other knowledge not too difficult. As farming was
       the most available occupation for him, he took it up and followed
       it, raising both crops and stock, until about 1893, when he rent-
       ed out his farm, and moved to Alma, where he opened a general
       store with JOHN YAEGER as partner. A year later he bought MR.
       YAEGER'S interest and operated the store alone for a year. He
       then sold the business and from 1895 to 1907 was proprietor of
       a grocery store in Alma. In 1908 MR. VOLLMER was elected on the
       Republican ticket as sheriff of Buffalo county, serving two
       years. The end of his term saw him elected as county treasurer.
       Serving two years in that office, he was again elected sheriff,
       and at the expiration of his second two years in the latter of-
       fice he once more became county treasurer, in which position he
       served two years more. MR. VOLLMER has held public office of
       one kind or another ever since he was 21 years old, with the
       exception of one year. He served five years as mayor of Alma,
       and seven years as alderman, and is now chief of the fire de-
       partment and road commissioner. Such long and continuous pub-
       lic service proves that he has the confidence of his fellow
       citizens, who are satisfied both as to his ability and inte-
       grity and know him to be a man who can be trusted. He is a
       member of three fraternal orders - the Modern Woodmen, the
       Woodmen of the World, and Knights of Pythias. MR. VOLLMER
       was married in 1888 to MARY FEIMAN, who was born in Alma,
       this county, daughter of CHRIS and BARBARA FEIMAN, he father
       being from Switzerland and a baker by trade. Of this union
       nine children have been born: LENA, who is a teacher; GEORGE,
       residing in Milwaukee; MABEL, wife of ARNOLD SCHILLING;
       LUELA, who is teaching in a normal school at Kenosha; 
       HENRIETTA, a nurse residing in Minneapolis; CLARENCE, who
       attended the University of Science and Letters at Chicago,
       and enlisted as a mechanic in the service of the United
       States in 1918; MILES, who is attending high school, and
       MORRIS, attending public school and DOROTHEA, residing at
       home.
       
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