YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914

BENJAMIN WARNKE (1888)

Benjamin Warnke is one of the thrifty young farmers of Yellow Medicine
county.  He rents from his father 120 acres of land on section 8, Posen
township.

Mr. Warnke has spent his entire life in Posen township, where he was born
July 20, 1888, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Warnke.  The father came to
Yellow Medicine county about thirty years ago and after working for a time
for Julius Akle, north of Wood Lake, settled in Posen township.  Henry
Warnke was born in Sibley county, Minnesota.  He farmed in Posen township
until 1910, when he retired and moved to Wood Lake.  The mother died when
Benjamin was about five months old.  George, a brother of Benjamin lives in
Nebraska.

Benjamin was brought up on his father's farm.  He was educated in the school
of district No. 62 and in a German school in Posen township.  He worked for
his father until he was twenty-two years old.  Then he rented the home place
and has since successfully conducted it.

Mr. Warnke was married February 22, 1910, in Wood Lake township, to Emma
Jeseritz, a daughter of Rudolph Jeseritz, of Wood Lake township.  She is a
native of Minnesota and was born November 10, 1891.  They have one child,
Adeline, born January 1, 1912.