Fred Handke Farm

Lynn Township, Clark County, Wisconsin

 

Fred Handke was baptised as John von Friedrick Wilhelm Handke.

His farm was located in Section 6 of Lynn Township, as shown on the Lynn plat maps from 1905 and 1906.

Below are photographs of his threshing crew and sawmill from 1905.

 

Fred Handke at Threshing

Fred Handke's Threshing Crew. Click here to open a larger photograph.

 

Fred Handke at Thresher

Closeup of Fred Handke (left) and his brother Ernest Handke (right).

Ernest Handke was about three years younger than his brother Fred. 
Ernest also had a farm in Section 6 of the Lynn Township, as shown on the Lynn plat maps from 1905 and 1906.

 

Fred Handke Sawmill

Fred Handke Sawmill. Click here to open a larger photograph.

Fred Handke at Sawmill

Closeup of Fred Handke

Photographs contributed by Laura and Rosalee Handke
(granddaughters of Fred Handke).

Text provided by Michael L. Bartsch.

 

Return to Lynn Township Genealogy Webpage.

Return to Lynn Township Homepage.

The contact for this page is James W. Sternitzky PhD .

 

 

 


© Every submission is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

 

Show your appreciation of this freely provided information by not copying it to any other site without our permission.

 

Become a Clark County History Buff

 

Report Broken Links

A site created and maintained by the Clark County History Buffs
and supported by your generous
donations.

 

Webmasters: Leon Konieczny, Tanya Paschke,

Janet & Stan Schwarze, James W. Sternitzky,

Crystal Wendt & Al Wessel.

 

CLARK CO. WI HISTORY HOME PAGE