Bio: Parge, Henry & Ida

Surnames: PARGE FREIMUND BEDROSKE

----Source: ABBOTSFORD, WIS. CENTENNIAL BOOK - 1973

Parge, Henry & Ida

Henry Parge, born Sept. 14, 1873 in the town of Mequon, Milwaukee County, came in 1882 to the town of Holton, Marathon Co. with his parents and attended grade schools in the area.

He attended the University of Wisconsin and received a Master Cheesemaker’s degree. For a number of years, he operated a cheese factory near Dorchester, which burned down. He then devoted the rest of life to the farming business.

Parge also served on the board of supervisors and as clerk in the town of Holton. On April 29, 1900, he was married to Ida Freimund, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in the town of Holton.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parge had three children, Arthur and Otto, and one daughter, Mrs. Alma Bedroske.