- AUGUST KOLLETH, who is a substantial retired farmer of Outagamie county, Wisconsin, and a highly respected resident of Osborn township, living in section 17, where he owns 100 acres of land, was born in Germany, March 31, 1847, and is a son of Charles and Fredericka (Mielhan) Kolleth. The family came to the United States in 1873, locating first at Green Bay, Wisconsin, moving then to Germantown and subsequently to Black Creek township. There the father died in 1895, aged eighty-three years, the mother surviving until 1909, when aged ninety-six years. She was born in Pomerania, Germany, a daughter of Ludwick and Caroline (Kauferman) Meilhan. Her brothers and sisters were: Wilhelmina, Ludwick, Ferdinand, Frederick, Hannah, August and two others who died in Germany. The children of Charles and Frederica Kolleth were: Frank, who married Lena Ponkropt; Emil, who married Jennie Dixon; Anna, who married Bernard Spangberg; Edward, who married Emma Bootz; August, who married Cora Eick; Lena, who married Charles Pelier; Lizzie, who married Alfred Hurst; and Ott, who never married. For three years after coming to America, August Kolleth was employed as a farm hand near Menominee Falls, where he married, and then moved to Black Creek township and located on a tract of forty acres, where his first residence was nothing but a sheep stable. Better conditions were soon brought about, however, and he not only cleared this land but put up a comfortable house and lived on that place for seven years. He then secured 100 acres of wild land in section 17, his present place, one-half of which had been partly cleared. He cormpleted the clearing and in the course of years developed his present productive farm and also erected a commodious house with ten rooms, and a basement barn of 36x88 feet in dimensions. During his active years he worked hard but now rents the farm to his son, August Kolleth.
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1882 - 1951 (69 years)
1910 Census
