WI BIO - Wood Co - RUMANOFF, Joseph

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1212

Joseph RUMANOFF, hardware merchant, Marshfield [Wood County, Wisconsin], was 
born 05 October 1848 in Kreutzler, Germany, a son of George and Katharina 
RUMANOFF. A carpenter by trade, he came to Wisconsin in 1866. He lived a 
year at Hollandtown, Calumet County [should be Hollandtown in Brown County, 
Wisconsin]; then went to Green Bay [Brown County, Wisconsin]; then lived four 
years in Vinland, Winnebago County [Wisconsin]; then to Sherwood [in Harrison 
Township, Calumet County, Wisconsin. He probably traveled on the military 
road that ran from Fond du Lac to Green Bay, which was planked for about 
twenty-four miles (from the county line between Calumet and Brown Counties to 
Green Bay in Brown County), and not planked through Calumet County to Fond du 
Lac.] 

In February 1872 he [Joseph RUMANOFF] was married to Miss Magdalena 
BRANDMEYER, of Sherwood [Calumet County, Wisconsin]. They [Joseph and 
Magadalena (BRADMEYER) RUMANOFF] have four children: Andrew, Christiana, 
Maggie, and Frank. In April 1877 Mr. [Joseph] RUMANOFF commenced in the 
hardware business at Auburndale. [The village of Auburndale was incorporated 
24 May 1881; located in Auburndale Township, twenty-three miles northwest of 
what is now Wisconsin Rapids, but was then still the separate communities of 
Centralia and Grand Rapids, all in Wood County, Wisconsin.] In August 1877 
Mr. RUMANOFF came from Sherwood to Marshfield.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly