Bio: Radloff, F. G. (1859 - 19??)

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Surnames: Radloff, Gearhohn

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Radloff, F. G. (28 September 1859 - 19??)

F. G. RADLOFF, secretary of the Berlin Fire and Lightning Insurance Company, in the town of Berlin, is a general farmer living in section 5, where he owns 120 acres, lying eleven miles west of Merrill. Wis. He was born in Germany, September 28, 1859, attended school there and was twenty-three years old when he came to America. He lived first in Lincoln County, Wis., and then came to his present place in the town of Berlin, when the whole country was covered with timber.  

Mr. Radloff has cleared eighty acres of his land and has put up excellent buildings and still has standing the first house he and family occupied. He married Miss Alena Gearhohn, who was born in Lincoln County, and they have six children: Robert, Charles, William, Edwin, Elsie and Stella. Mr. Radloff and family belong to the Lutheran Church, of which he is a trustee. For ten years he has been secretary of the above named insurance company and is a member of the Hamburg Telephone Company, No. 1. In politics he is a Democrat. For eighteen years he served as school clerk of District No. 3 for four years was town treasurer and for one year was town assessor.