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     Anna Christina Luehrsen immigrated in 1850.

     FRED C. KRUSE is proprietor of the Roseland Stock Farm in Westfield
Township. His career is a stimulating example of what may be accomplished
by a man of energy in pursuit of a definite ambition and a determination
to make a home and achieve something out of the ordinary
in farming.
Mr. Kruse is a native of Westfield Township, where he was born March
18, 1868, a son of Herman and Annie (Luehrsen) Kruse. His parents
were both natives of Germany. In 1853 they came to New York City,
'where his father engaged in the wholesale candy manufacture for a
number of years. He realized considerable capital in that and in the fall
of 1867 came west and invested in land in Westfield Township of Sauk
County. For a 160-acre farm he paid sixty-five hundred dollars. That
was a rather high price for land at that time. The father spent the rest
of his years here and died in 1883. The mother, who was born August
9, 1828, lived to the venerable age of eighty-nine. There were four children:
Henry; Lucy, who died in 1903; Fred C., and Annie.
Fred C. Kruse grew up on a farm, attended school at Loganville,
and when only fourteen years of age he started out to make his own way
in the world. Nothing has ever been given him and by looking out for
himself he has steadily made progress to his present prosperous and satisfying
situation. He learned'the milling trade and worked at it two
years. Then for four years he worked in mills and on farms, and always
having an eye to the future he saved his wages until he could buy forty
acres in Westfield Township. That was the nucleus of his present estate
and he has since added to it until the Roseland Stock Farm comprises
136 acres. He cleared up a large part of the land with his own sturdy
right arm, and in getting the land ready for cultivation he sold any
number of cords of wood at eighty cents per cord. Most of the returns
from this timber he invested in permanent improvements, and he now has some of the best building equipment found in the township. His
stock and dairy barn is 40 by 84 feet. For the past eleven years Mr.
Kruse has been handling thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He has a dairy
of about twenty-five cows and keeps about forty-five head of livestock.
Another feature of his industry is the breeding and raising of high class
poultry. His farm is operated on a business plan and under the firm
name of Fred C. Kruse & Sons.
Mr. Kruse has always been interested in movements directed to
improve the condition of the community, and especially the local schools.
He has served as school director, but has never been an aspirant for
offices in the political sense. He is a republican and a member of the
Lutheran Church. November 29, 1892., he married Miss Anna Hasz. She
was born in Loganville in 1870, a daughter of Christ and Dora (Westedt)
Hasz. Her parents were early settlers in Sauk County and her father
died here at the age of fifty-five and her mother at fifty-one. Five children
comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Kruse: Conrad, who married
in 1916 Elsie Feldtman, of Loganville; Paul; Edwin; Martha, who died
at the age of four months; and Clara.

     Amelia Emilie Catherine Kohlmeyer had 4 with 3 living in 1910 children.

     Herbert E. Schenck obtained US Social Security Card at Wisconsin; last residence Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin.

     Ervin W. Giese obtained US Social Security Card at Wisconsin; last residence Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin.