Hi Listers.. An index to the biographies in the History of Barron County, 1922, and others previously submitted are available at the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Joseph Kringle, who owns a good farm of 60 acres in Section 16, Cedar Lake Township, is one of the leaders in his part of the township. He has been clerk of his township since 1917 and clerk of the Mikana Dairy Produce Association, operating the cheese factory at Mikana, since 1919. He is local overseer of state highway work, and in 1920 supervised the putting of some 8,000 loads of gravel on six miles of roadway. He is a native of this county, born in Maple Grove Township Oct. 25, 1891, son of Gabriel and Barbara (Huseth) Kringle. He was educated in the schools of his neighborhood, and in 1908 received a diploma testifying to his completion of a grammar school course of study. For a time thereafter he continued on the farm with his parents. In 1910 he went into the woods where he was employed in the commissary department of a lumber camp. The next year he did farm work for Oskar Bergen in Dallas Township. He went to North Dakota in 1912 and worked for two years on a farm in Foster County. In 1914 he came back to Barron County and became clerk in the general store of George Kringle, at Mikana, for a year. Then from 1915 to 1917 he rented his father's farm. But he had conceived a liking for the Mikana locality, so in 1917 he came here and purchased his present place. It was then improved to some extent. He put up a house and a large basement barn which is modernly equipped with Hudson stanchions, running water, litter carrier and other conveniences. On this place he conducts general farming and dairying. His holdings include stock in the Mikana Dairy Products Association and the Mikana Feed Mill Company. Mr. Kringle is likewise prominent in church affairs. He is a man of good clerical ability and his records are well kept. He is also a man of good judgment and his opinions are highly regarded. Mr. Kringle was married Sept. 25, 1913, at St. Paul, Minn., to Goldie Edgett, daughter of David and Rachael (Chute) Edgett, now living at Mikana. Mr. and Mrs. Kringle have three bright boys: Glen J., born July 27, 1914; Lloyd L., born March 27, 1916, and Howard D., born March 17, 1918. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 359.