Frank A Radloff, ca. 1906-1907

Frank Radloff (1883 - 1962), taken about 1906 or 1907. His parents came to the United States in 1874 from Pomerania, which was then part of Germany but is now in Poland. Frank (christened Franz) Hermann August Radloff was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, where his family had first settled after emigrating. Frank had seven brothers and sisters who lived to adulthood. 

He married Ethel May Davies on May 5, 1909 in Almond, Portage County, Wisconsin. For most of his adult life he farmed on leased parcels of land in Portage, Waushara and Waupaca Counties. For the last ten years of so of his life he worked for the municipal public works department in the City of Waupaca. He and Ethel had five children: Wilma, b.1910; Harold, b.1914; Howard, b.1917; Audrey (my grandmother), b.1921; and Adeline, b.1925.