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



FRED WARNKE (1898)

Fred Warnke is the owner of the east half of the southwest quarter of
section 28 and the north half of the northwest quarter of section 33, Posen
township.

He was born in Germany January 24, 1856, and came to the United States with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warnke, when about six months old; his mother
died soon after her arrival to America.  The family early located in Sibley
county, Minnesota, where the father died when the subject of this sketch was
thirteen years of age.

Mr. Warnke's boyhood was spent in Sibley county.  He was brought up on the
farm and educated in the country schools.  Thrown on his own resources in
early life, he continued to make his home in Sibley county until 1880.  That
year he moved with a brother to Stanley township, Lyon county, Minnesota,
and worked for his brother until 1898.  He then came to Yellow Medicine
county and bought his present farm in Posen township, on which he has lived
ever since.  When he bought the place it was raw prairie, without buildings,
fences or improvements of any kind.  All of improvements have been added by
Mr. Warnke, and he has a fine home.

The marriage of Mr. Warnke occurred February 24, 1903, when in Sibley
county, Minnesota, he was united to Mary Boetcher, who was born at
Henderson, Minnesota, April 25, 1875.  They have one child, Martha, who was
born September 23, 1907.