CARL C. A. WINZENBURGER, farmer, P.O. Burnt Prairie, was born June 27, 1821, in Goeppingen, Wurtemberg, Germany; his father Carl C. Winzenburger, was also a native of Germany, where he died; he was in the employ of the German Treasury Department. The mother of our subject was Friederika (Langbein), a native of Germany, where she died. She was the mother of three children ---
His second wife was Susannah Ziegler, who died leaving one daughter, Margareta, wife of Henry Kieser.
Our subject's present wife was a Mrs. Jeanette A. Le Rue, a daughter of Carl Xavier Forstmayer, a native of Fortsheim, Germany. She is yet living; her first husband was of French descent, and she yet talks the French language very fluently; her father, Carl Xavier Forstmayer, was a man of rare talents, and an able business man; he was married Charlotte L. Marischsall, who was a daughter of a Madame Violoe, whose descendants are heirs of a large fortune.
Mr. Winzenburger came to this country in 1864, and in the southeast corner of Leech Township bought 320 acres of land, at $10 per acre. which he mainly improved, and keeps in a high state of cultivation. He is a man of good, sound sense, independent in political matters, and believes to do to others as you wish to have them to do you.
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