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Born 1843
From Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wiscons (1901), History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884)
Abraham Stauffacher, a native of canton Glarus, Switzerland, was born April 21, 1843. He is a son of Jacob and Catharine Stauffacher, both of whom are dead and buried in his native country. Abraham was the tenth child and the only one of the family who came to America. He was well educated in Switzerland, attending school until twelve years old. He then hired out on a farm. His father was a farmer, and at the same time mail carrier and postmaster. Abraham learned the trade of locksmith, serving an apprenticeship of seven years, and then learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed in Switzerland, and for a time after com ing to this county, first working for Constantino Haegla six months, and then went into partnership with G. Schindler two years and a half. He then went to Iowa with the intention of settling there, bought a shop and paid some money down, but failing to sell his property in New Glarus, he did not go, but built a shop and engaged in work for four years, then sold out to Michael Smith and went to Monroe, where he found employment with the Monroe Manufacturing company one year, then about 1874, he removed to the town of Jordan and bought a shop from J. Klasey, where he remained two years, then purchased thirteen acres of land on section 10, to which he removed his shop, and has since kept the same. He now owns 169 acres on that section. He was married in his native country to Elsbeth Baebler, Feb 13, 1866, and this union was blessed with ten children — Jacob, Albert H., John, Ernst A., Katharina, Edward, Rosa, Henry, David W. and Elsbeth. Mr. and Mrs. Stauffacher are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. He is politically a republican.
As printed in History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ABRAHAM STAUFFACHER, of Jordan Center, Jordan township, Green county, one of the leading and most progressive citizens of the locality, is a native of Switzerland, born April 21, 1843, in the village of Matt, Canton Glarus.
Jacob Stauffacher, his father, was born July 10, 1788, and died Feb. 11, 1858, having passed all his days in Switzerland, where, in Canton Glarus, he was for many years a mail carrier and postmaster. He was a son of Tacob Stauffacher, a farmer in the land of William Tell. Jacob Jr., married Catherine Wild, who was born June 6, 1798’ ankd died in Switzerland Aug. 11, 1865. Phey had a family of ten children, four of whom died in infancy, the others' being: Flenry, Barbaia,
Rosina, Jacob, Catherine and Abraham, all now deceased except the last named.
Abraham Stauffacher was reared on a farm in, and received his education in the district schools of, his native land. When old enough he learned the trade of locksmith, which lie followed for several years. In 1867 he came to this country, reaching his destination, Green county, Wis., on June 21, 1867, and for some months worked at his trade in New Glams', in the employ of Constantine Hegely, after which, in the same town, lie entered into a partnership with G. Schindler, which continued about two years. He then built a shop, and pursued his trade, alone, some three years, when he sold out to Michael Smith, and removed to the city of Monroe, where for a year he was in the employ of a manufacturing company. In 1874 Mr. Stauffacher came to Jordan township and purchased a blacksmith shop, carrying on that trade about two years, at the end of that time buying thirteen acres of farm land, on which he built his present shop, and where he has met with excellent success. From time to time he added to this property until he has now 320 acres of good farm land, equipped with a comfortable dwelling, and two of the most commodious bank barns in the township.
On Feb. 13, 1866, Abraham Stauffacher was married in Switzerland to Miss Elsbeth Baebler, of Canton Glarus, a daughter of Albright and Elsbeth Baebler. Children as follows have come to this union, all natives of Wisconsin except the eldest: Jacob, born in
Switzerland Nov. 7, 1866, married Anna
Knobel, of Jordan, Green county; Albert FI., born July 4, 1868, in New Glarus, Wis., resides in South Dakota; John, born Oct. 21, 1869, is a widower with five children, and resides on the home place; Ernst Abraham, born Feb. 6, 1871, resides in South Dakota; Catherine, born Aug. 4, 1872, married Miles O. Newman, of Peterson, Iowa; Edward, born April 12, 1874, lives in Monroe, Green county; Rosa, born April 15, 1876, is the wife of Franklin Ellis, a farmer of Jordan township, Green county; Henry, born Dec. 2, 1877; William D., April 12, 1879. Miss Elsbeth, June 19, 1881, and Otto, Oct. 28, 1885, are all at home. Mr. Stauffacher has been remarkably fortunate in his family his eleven children all enjoying excellent health. The most serious accident in the family occurred July 31, 1889, when his daughter Catherine, received a slight shock of lightning, at the time she was milking a cow, which was instantly killed.
In politics our subject is a stanch Democrat, and has served in various public offices, including those of school director, treasurer, clerk, and chairman of the township board six years in all, also township treasurer for five years. For seven years he was postmaster at Jordan. In addition to farming pursuits, he is interested in the Cooperative Cheese Factory, and carries on blacksmithing in his shop-on the home place. He is a representative self-made man, having come to America without a dollar, and, by his own persistent effort and the aid of his' industrious wife and children, has accumulated a nice competence.
As printed in Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wiscons (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Jacob Deetz (b. 1831) John Lewis (b. 1813) Joseph Staley (b. 1849) Peter Nulty (b. 1840) Samuel Blackford (b. 1837) William Ableman William Trotter (b. 1827)
Their biographies name Abraham Stauffacher: Andrew Meythaler (b. 1836)
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