This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kuckuck, Gabower, Avery Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/609 Message Board Post: George F. Kuckuck owns one of the best 150-acre farms in Monroe county; it is located in sections seventeen and twenty in Oakdale township, where he has lived since 1910. He is a carpenter by trade, but has followed the occupation of farming all of his life. He was born on January 30, 1888, in Oakdale township, the son of George and Rose (Gabower) Kuckuck, who are both natives of Germany. He lived at home and attended school unti lhe was eighteen years of age and then learned the carpenters' trade and worked at that for about four years, after which he purchased his father's farm. On June 24, 1909, he was wedded in Monroe county, to Miss Charlotte Avery, whose parents are early settlers here and highly respected people. Mr. Kuckuck is one of the hustling young farmers of this locality, and is thoroughly up-to-date on all issues of public interest. At the present time he is secretary of the Oakdale Co-operative Butter Association and is a man of good business judgement. He is a Democrat in politics, and takes great intersest in the movements of the party. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Source: "History of Monroe County, Wisconsin - Past and Present, Including an account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County" Publ. 1912, C. F. Cooper & Co., Chicago. p. 772