Traufler, Nicholas

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• Reference Number: 2473
• Immigration: Abt 1873
• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0790

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Biography:
NICK TRAUFLER, one of the substantial citizens and progressive agriculturists of Outagamie county, Wisconsin, whose excellent farm is located on section 22, in Seymour township, was born May 26, 1854, in Luxemburg, Germany, a son of Martin and Mary Traufler. Mrs. Traufler died in Germany in 1864, aged fifty years, and in 1873 the father came to the United States with his three children: Nick, Michael and Maggie, and settled on section 21, Seymour township, on forty acres of wild land, where Mr. Traufler resided until his death in 1885, at the age of sixty-six years. Nick Traufier remained in Appleton, Wisconsin, and worked for E. C. Goff for seven or eight years, at the end of which time he located in Seymour township, on wild land in section 21, he and his wife starting their lives in this section in a little log cabin. Mr. Traufler experienced all of the hardships and privations of the pioneer, but little by little claimed his land from the wilderness, and soon had a comfortable home erected. He added forty acres to his original purchase, and here he resided until 1900, when he moved across the road to section 22, and here he has since made his home. He has a fertile, well-watered property, nicely fenced and well graded, with abundant pasture land for his cattle, and his buildings are modern, substantial and in the best of repair. He raises large crops, and his graded stock is as good as any to be found in the township.
In 1881, Mr. Traufler was united in marriage with Mary Groth, who was born July 29, 1861, in Mecklenburg, Germany, daughter of Fred and Anna (Weeman) Groth, who came to the United States in 1869. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Groth, Mary, Christ and Fred were born in Germany, and Leonard and Henrietta in the United States. Mr. Groth located in the town of Center, Rock county, Wisconsin, where Mr. Groth died in 1895, aged sixty-five years, while his widow still survives, having reached the age of seventy- seven. Mr. and Mrs. Traufler have had the following children: Maggie, born December 15, 1882; John, born April 17, 1884; Michael, born January 18, 1886; Anna, born September 20, 1887; Mayme, born September 1, 1889; William, born September 28, 1891; Louise, born March 2, 1894; Minnie, born May 10, 1896; and Henry, born February 21, 1900.