Bio: Braulin, M. F. (History - 1850)

Contact: Janet Schwarze

Surnames: BRAULIN TAYLOR

----Source: Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, WI, published by The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891 Pg. 228 - 229:

M.F. BRAULIN, merchant, Neillsville, Wisconsin, was born in Syracuse, New York, May 12, 1850. His father was born in France, and his mother in New York State. In his father's family were ten children, he being the seventh born. At the early age of thirteen years he began working in the lumber woods of Brown County, Wisconsin, receiving $30 per month. At the age of sixteen, in 1866, he took a trip up the Mississippi River, and ran a ferry on Lake Pepin. Returning to Brown County, he learned the blacksmith's trade there in 1867, and worked at it until eight years ago, when he engaged in the mercantile business at Neillsville. He is buying and selling pine saw-logs and timber, and has a general merchandise store, and by fair and honest dealings has worked up an extensive trade.

In 1870 Mr. Braulin was married, in Wrightstown, Wisconsin, to Ollie R. Taylor, daughter of Benjamin Taylor, a farmer of Brown County. She received her education in the common schools. They have four children, namely: Ida M., Sadie, Lester F. and William H. H., all receiving good educational advantages. Mr. Braulin began married life with limited means. The first year he worked for $28 a month, and save up $80. With that, in 1872, he started a blacksmith shop at Green's Mill, where he was successfully engaged for two years then he bought a barn and ran it for three years sold and moved to Greenleaf, Brown County went into the machinery and wagon manufacture for four years, then sold out and moved to Neillsville. As the years went by he accumulated a snug little sum of money, with which he purchased an eighty-acre farm in Brown County. Mr. Braulin is associated with the I.O.O.F. at Neillsville. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.