“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


JACOB WAGNER,  farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Fort Atkinson; born in 
Bavaria Jan. 5, 1847; he is the son of Jacob and Bena Wagner; his father 
was born in Bavaria Dec. 18, 1811; he was brought up a farmer; at the 
age of 14, he was left with a widowed mother, of whom he was the only 
support.  Married, in Bavaria, in 1840, Miss Bena Kulls, who was born 
in Bavaria in 1817; had seven children, four living – Bena, Jacob, 
Frederick, Catherine.  In 1852, he came, with his parents, to Wisconsin; 
they located in Waukesha Co., where his father bought a farm, to which 
he devoted time and industry up to the time of his death, in May, 1878.  
His wife still lives on the old homestead.  Jacob lived with, and assisted 
his parents at farming until 1871.  Married in Waukesha Co., Jan. 4, 
1871; in the spring of 1871, he and his wife came to Oakland, where he 
purchased a farm of 120 acres and improved it; raises a variety of crops 
and native stock.  Independent in politics; liberal in religion.


Submitted by:  L.Pingel