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    1. [WIBARRON] Biography of Louis A. Dunneboil
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    3. 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 Louis A. Dunneboil, superintendent of the municipal waterworks and electric light plant, at Rice Lake, living at 322 Reuter avenue, was born in Germany, Aug. 29, 1876, son of Charles and Wilhelmina (Rost) Dunneboil. He attended school until he was a youth of sixteen, and then learned the machinist's trade. He came to America in 1892, and for three years was employed on boats plying the Hudson river and the Erie canal between New York city and Buffalo. In 1895 he came to Stanley, in this state, and became engineer for the Northwestern Lumber Co., with whom he remained for fourteen years. In 1909 he became chief engineer for the Conner Lumber & Land Co. at Laona. He came to Rice Lake in 1912 as superintendent for the Red Cedar Valley Electric Co. In 1918 he was superintendent for the Wisconsin & Minnesota Light & Power Co. at Rice Lake. The next year he worked for himself, and in 1920 assumed the duties of his present position. In addition to his other holdings, Mr. Dunneboil has a part interest with Ole Moe in a store on Main street, which is profitably rented. He was married Aug. 19, 1901, to Anna Wald of Stanley, Wis., daughter of Frank and Anna Wald, who came from Austria in 1877 and settled in Stanley, Wis., where they died, he Jan. 5, 1907, and she June 4, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Dunneboil have five children: Mary Anna, born July 30, 1902; Veronica Mary, born July 2, 1906; Albert Frank, born March 31, 1909; Clarence Edward, born Nov. 16, 1913, and Joseph Michael, born April 24, 1916. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 216.

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