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Celebrating Our Past: April 16, 2025
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This picture comes from the September 6, 1944 edition of the New Glarus Post. Seated on the left is great-grandmother Mrs. W. F. Marquardt of Baraboo, standing is grandmother Mrs. August Klitzke, of New Glarus, seated at the right is Mrs. Ivan Legler of Brooklyn, and the baby is Patricia Ann Legler. The paper notes that Mrs. Klitzke lived on a farm in Spring Valley and was the mother of nine children and stepmother of four. Mrs. Marquardt was also the mother of nine. | Photo supplied by the New Glarus Historical Society

This picture comes from the September 6, 1944 edition of the New Glarus Post. Seated on the left is great-grandmother Mrs. W. F. Marquardt of Baraboo, standing is grandmother Mrs. August Klitzke, of New Glarus, seated at the right is Mrs. Ivan Legler of Brooklyn, and the baby is Patricia Ann Legler. The paper notes that Mrs. Klitzke lived on a farm in Spring Valley and was the mother of nine children and stepmother of four. Mrs. Marquardt was also the mother of nine.


Photo supplied by the New Glarus Historical Society